It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...
Access control is a crucial concern to build secure IT systems and, more specifically, to protect the confidentiality of information. However, access control is necessary, but not ...
Knowledge communities of all kinds have social and material practices for deciding what is known and who is to be trusted. In this paper, we address a specific kind of knowledge w...
Nancy A. Van House, Mark H. Butler, Lisa R. Schiff
The richness of today’s electronic communications mirrors physical world: activities such as shopping, business and scientific collaboration are conducted online. Current intera...
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of non-textual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential f...