The challenges faced by mobile and distributed applications include the ability to discover and negotiate for the resources required for execution. The NOMAD (Negotiated Object Mo...
This position paper supports the view that a model based on shared objects is an attractive alternative to message passing for structuring distributed applications and that a distr...
Pierre-Yves Chevalier, Daniel Hagimont, Sacha Krak...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
The per-method access control lists of standard middleware technologies allow only simple forms of access control to be expressed and enforced. Research systems based on capabilit...
Access control is a crucial concern to build secure IT systems and, more specifically, to protect the confidentiality of information. However, access control is necessary, but not ...