Abstract. Set-valued attributes are convenient to model complex objects occurring in the real world. Currently available database systems support the storage of set-valued attribut...
Mikolaj Morzy, Tadeusz Morzy, Alexandros Nanopoulo...
The TaskTracer system allows knowledge workers to define a set of activities that characterize their desktop work. It then associates with each user-defined activity the set of ...
Jianqiang Shen, Jed Irvine, Xinlong Bao, Michael G...
The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate, resulting in “islands” of CDNs. Finding ways for dist...
Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg, Kris Buben...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. We present Cassandra, a language and system for expressing policy, and the results of a sub...
In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agen...