The paper proposes an assessment scheme for the security properties of software components. The proposed scheme consists of three stages: (i) a system-specific security requireme...
: The capability to easily find useful services becomes increasingly critical in several fields. In this paper we argue that, in many situations, the service discovery process shou...
We argue that efficient support for schema validation and type annotation in XQuery processors deserves as much attention as efficient evaluation techniques for XPath queries have...
The monadic style of language speci cation has the advantages of modularity and extensibility: it is simple to add or change features in an interpreter to re ect modi cations in t...
In this paper we describe a paradigm for contentfocused matchmaking, based on a recently proposed model for constraint acquisition-and-satisfaction. Matchmaking agents are conceiv...