A language for semi-structured documents, XML has emerged as the core of the web services architecture, and is playing crucial roles in messaging systems, databases, and document p...
Pervasive computing environments offer a multitude of information services that provide potentially complex types of information. Therefore, when running access control for sensit...
Many tools exist for developing real-time distributed groupware, but most of these tools focus primarily on the performance of the resulting system, or on simplifying the developm...
Publish/subscribe infrastructures are used as the basic communication and integration framework in many application domains. The majority of those infrastructures, however, fall s...
– A safety-critical real-time computer system must provide its services with a dependability that is much better than the dependability of any one of its constituent components. ...