Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive realtime systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) distributed object computing (DOC) middleware must support application qual...
Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns, Mar...
—Embedded systems normally involve a combination of hardware and software resources designed to perform dedicated tasks. Such systems have widely crept into industrial control, a...
Though overriding as a single and default mode of inheritance is adequate for most knowledge bases, a large class of applications naturally requires several inheritance modes and ...
Delegation of authority is an important process that needs to be captured by any access control model. In role-based access control models, delegation of authority involves delega...