We propose the role-and-relation-based access control (R2 BAC) model for workflow systems. In R2 BAC, in addition to a user's role memberships, the user's relationships w...
Indeterminism is typical for concurrent computation. If several concurrent actors compete for the same resource then at most one of them may succeed, whereby the choice of the suc...
Abstract—As smart phones grow in popularity, manufacturers are in a race to pack an increasingly rich set of features into these tiny devices. This brings additional complexity i...
We consider online algorithms for the generalized caching problem. Here we are given a cache of size k and pages with arbitrary sizes and fetching costs. Given a request sequence ...
Conceptual complexity is emerging as a new bottleneck as data-base developers, application developers, and database administrators struggle to design and comprehend large, complex...