Collaborative systems provide a rich but potentially chaotic environment for their users. This paper presents a system that allows users to control collaboration by enacting polic...
The IPsec protocol provides a mechanism to enforce a range of security services for both confidentiality and integrity, enabling secure transmission of information across networks...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
In this paper, the case of a cardboard box marketing firm is studied and a (R,s,Q,c) inventory replenishment policy is proposed and evaluated by means of discrete event simulation...
Carlos B. Ramirez Cerda, Armando J. Espinosa de lo...
This paper presents a dynamic technique for predicting the e ect that a location" of a program will have on the program's computational behavior. The technique is based ...