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...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...
Software package selection is an activity that plays an increasingly crucial role in the delivery of software systems. One of its main open issues is how to structure the knowledge...
Intelligent agents provide a means to integrate various manufacturing software applications. The agents are typically executed in a computer-based collaborative environment, refer...
The process of managing inconsistency is a fundamental activity that permeates a large part of the systems development process. Failure to identify inconsistencies may lead to maj...