Abstract. An important goal of security in information systems is confidentiality. A confidentiality policy specifies which users should be forbidden to acquire what kind of inform...
Emergent processes are non-routine, collaborative business processes whose execution is guided by the knowledge that emerges during a process instance. In so far as the process go...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
: Quantitative models are needed for a variety of management tasks, including (a) identification of critical variables to use for health monitoring, (b) anticipating service level...
Yixin Diao, Frank Eskesen, Steve Froehlich, Joseph...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...