In distributed environments, statements from a number of principals, besides the central trusted party, may influence the derivations of authorization decisions. However, existin...
Autonomic systems are typically distributed, complex and concurrent systems, comprised of multiple interacting autonomic elements that often exhibit emergent behavior. Design and ...
Radovan Cervenka, Dominic A. P. Greenwood, Ivan Tr...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
Learning Objects Metadata describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metad...
We present a non-operational approach to specifying and analyzing shared memory consistency models. The method uses higher order logic to capture a complete set of ordering constra...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom, K...