Abstract. Since XML is used as a storage format in an increasing number of applications, security has become an important issue in XML databases. One aspect of security is restrict...
Biometric authentication, i.e. verifying the claimed identity of a person based on physiological characteristics or behavioral traits, has the potential to contribute to both priv...
The construction of composite Web Services from service fragments requires semantic descriptions of service offers and service requests. We propose the use of dependencies as a mo...
A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...