: Knowledge has been thought to be the most important asset in a company having a significant impact on company competitiveness. Software development is knowledge-intensive but sof...
Abstract. Knowledge based systems improve information interoperability, integration, and knowledge management. Consequently, there is envisioned a set of the associated business be...
The Ponder language provides a common means of specifying security policies that map onto various access control implementation mechanisms for firewalls, operating systems, databas...
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Mor...
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...