We argue that joint administration of access policies for a dynamic coalition formed by autonomous domains requires that these domains set up a coalition authority that distribute...
The development of the infrastructure for ubiquitous computing is progressing rapidly, yet the applications that will be built on this new infrastructure remain largely ill define...
Abstract. A great deal of research has been devoted to nontrivial reasoning in inconsistent knowledge bases. Coherence-based approaches proceed by a consolidation operation which s...
—A user’s focus of attention plays an important role in human–computer interaction applications, such as a ubiquitous computing environment and intelligent space, where the u...
Parallel programming continues to be difficult, despite substantial and ongoing research aimed at making it tractable. Especially dismaying is the gulf between theory and the pract...