We present a simple, yet powerful, approach for the specification and enforcement of authorizations regulating data release among data holders collaborating in a distributed comp...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Object caching is a desirable feature to improve the both scalability and performance of distributed application systems for information infrastructure, the information management ...
With the ever-increasing use of object-oriented middleware in distributed information systems, new challenges are facing the software engineering profession. Often, it is simply a...
The established host-centric networking paradigm is challenged due to handicaps related with disconnected operation, mobility, and broken locator/identifier semantics. This paper...