The impossibility of statically determining the behavior of complex systems that interact at runtime with heterogeneous devices and remote entities, may lead to unexpected system ...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
Distributed application programmers rely on middleware such as CORBA in order to handle the complexity that arises from the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the underlying ...
Recently proposed usage control concept and models extend traditional access control models with features for contemporary distributed computing systems, including continuous acce...
In a highly mobile and active society, ubiquitous access to information and services is a general desire. The context of users is of high importance for an application to adapt aut...