Ontologies will play a pivotal rˆole in the “Semantic Web”, where they will provide a source of precisely defined terms that can be communicated across people and applicatio...
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Carole A. Goble, Rob...
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models have emerged as a leading access control approach for today’s information systems. Hybrid role hierarchies introduced in the Generalized ...
Delegation of authority is an important process that needs to be captured by any access control model. In role-based access control models, delegation of authority involves delega...
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Abstract. A mathematical semantics is proposed for the notion of architectural connector, in the style defined by Allen and Garlan, that builds on Goguen’s categorical approach t...