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POLICY
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Cassandra: Distributed Access Control Policies with Tunable Expressiveness
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...
Moritz Y. Becker, Peter Sewell
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Towards the Operational Semantics of User-Centric Communication Models
Abstract—The pervasiveness of complex communication services and the need for end-users to play a greater role in developing communication services have resulted in the creation ...
Yingbo Wang, Yali Wu, Andrew A. Allen, Barbara Esp...
ICALP
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Secure Games with Polynomial Expressions
Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung
ICRA
1999
IEEE
183views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Agent-Based Planning and Control of a Multi-Manipulator Assembly System
This paper presents a distributed planning and control architecture for autonomous Multi-Manipulator Systems (MMS). The control architecture is implemented using an agent-based ap...
Juan C. Fraile, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep ...
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado Codes to Speed Up Downloads
Mirror sites enable client requests to be serviced by any of a number of servers, reducing load at individual servers and dispersing network load. Typically, a client requests serv...
John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher