Abstract. Biological systems involving genetic reactions are large discrete event systems, and often contain certain species that occur in small quantities, and others that occur i...
Research efforts have been directed toward the improvement of privacy protecting technology by incorporating privacy protection into database systems. Purpose acts as a central co...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Complex embedded systems consist of hardware and software components from different domains, such as control and signal processing, many of them supplied by different IP vendors. ...
We describe a system whose purpose is to explore the use of certificates for the distributed management of access rights for resources that have multiple, independent, and geograp...
William E. Johnston, Srilekha Mudumbai, Mary R. Th...