The problem of key management in access hierarchies studies ways to assign keys to users and classes such that each user, after receiving her secret key(s), is able to independentl...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Blanton, Keith B. Frikk...
The ever increasing speed of Internet connections has led to a point where it is actually possible for every end user to seamlessly share data on Internet. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) netw...
This paper presents a new model of agency, called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This draws from the classic BDI model and proposes a hierarchical agent architecture wi...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
A major hurdle in sharing resources between organizations is heterogeneity. Therefore, in order for two organizations to collaborate their policies have to be resolved. The proces...
Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Miron Livny, Patrick Drew Mc...
In many application contexts, like statistical databases, scientific databases, query optimizers, OLAP, and so on, data are often summarized into synopses of aggregate values. Su...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...