In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
The problem of merging multiple sources of information is central in many information processing areas such as databases integrating problems, multiple criteria decision making, e...
Static analysis of programs in weakly typed languages such as C and C++ is generally not sound because of possible memory errors due to dangling pointer references, uninitialized ...
We propose a new approach for applying Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to methods in objects in the Java programming language. In our approach, a policy implementer (usually a de...
This paper focuses on the information management systems of the dynamic World Wide Web. Many individual web pages, such as news portals, provide periodic information and public an...