Abstract-- SPKI/SDSI is a standard for issuing authorization and name certificates. SPKI/SDSI can be used to implement a Trust Management System, where the policy for resource acce...
Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
Given a network, we are interested in ranking sets of nodes that score highest on user-specified criteria. For instance in graphs from bibliographic data (e.g. PubMed), we would l...
The global inter-networking infrastructure that has become essential for contemporary day-to-day computing and communication tasks, has also enabled the deployment of several large...
A family of permutations in Sn is k-wise independent if a uniform permutation chosen from the family maps any distinct k elements to any distinct k elements equally likely. Effici...