In this paper, our objective is to define a security model for regulating access to XML documents. Our model offers a security policy with a great expressive power. An XML documen...
Abstract. Team automata provide a framework for capturing notions like coordination, colon, and cooperation in distributed systems. They consist of an abstract specification of com...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Clarence A. Ellis, Jetty Klei...
We present a formal specification of the PING protocol, and use three concepts of convergence theory, namely closure, convergence, and protection, to show that this protocol is se...
The premises of this paper are 1) security is application dependent because application semantics directly influence proper protection; but 2) applications are generally too compl...
Abstract. We consider the problem of developing an abstract metamodel of access control in terms of which policies for protecting a principal's private information may be spec...