Procedural norms are instrumental norms addressed to agents playing a role in the normative system, for example to motivate these role playing agents to recognize violations or to...
QoS has been one of the major challenges in Web Services area. Though negotiated in the contract, service quality usually can not be guaranteed by providers. Therefore, the servic...
This paper describes a security architecture designed to support role-based access control for distributed object systems in a large-scale, multi-organisational enterprise in whic...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Network devices can filter traffic in order to protect end-user computers against network worms and other threats. Since these devices have very limited memories and cannot deploy ...