Modelling and analysing distributed and mobile software systems is a challenging task. PEPA nets—coloured stochastic Petri nets—are a recently introduced modelling formalism w...
Security is a major, frequent concern in extensible software systems such as Java Virtual Machines and the Common Language Runtime. These systems aim to enable simple, classic app...
We describe the design and implementation of a trust-management system Soutei, a dialect of Binder, for access control in distributed systems. Soutei policies and credentials are w...
Given the dizzying pace of change in computer science, trying to look too far into the future of software engineering is hard. However, it might be possible to predict the future ...
This paper describes new technology based on on-line decision support for providing personalized customer treatments in web-based storefronts and information sites. The central im...