— In pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic con...
Abstract—The evolution towards cross-organizational collaboration and interaction patterns has led to the emergence of scalable, Web services-based composition infrastructures. T...
The applicability of aspects as a means of implementing runtime contract checking has been demonstrated in prior work, where contracts are identified as cross-cutting concerns [1...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...
In distributed environments, statements from a number of principals, besides the central trusted party, may influence the derivations of authorization decisions. However, existin...