Despite the many research efforts at the transport layer (SCTP, DCCP, etc.), new innovations in that area hardly ever make it into the TCP/IP stacks of standard end systems. We b...
There are a variety of well-known models for access control developed for purposes like formally modeling the access rights on files, databases, and web resources. However, the ex...
Carl A. Gunter, Michael J. May, Stuart G. Stubbleb...
The Internet today can be seen as a global market for electronic services. Each provider can offer its services, and customers can choose between several providers offering simila...
In this paper, we survey the models and approaches applied to the middleware services of pervasive computing environments. Architectural styles and patterns introduced in the doma...
Frameworks that support the implementation and execution of service compositions are a fundamental component of middleware infrastructures that support the design of adaptive syste...