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...
Abstract. Hierarchical Task-Network (HTN) based planning techniques have been applied to the problem of composing Web Services, especially when described using the OWL-S service on...
Ugur Kuter, Evren Sirin, Dana S. Nau, Bijan Parsia...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing offers new opportunities for building highly distributed data systems. Unlike client-server computing, P2P can operate without central coordination and...
SQL in the IBM® DB2® Universal Database™ for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® (DB2 UDB) database management product has been extended to support nested INSERT, UPDATE, and DELET...
Advances in data acquisition and sensor technologies are leading towards the development of “High Fan-in” architectures: widely distributed systems whose edges consist of nume...
Owen Cooper, Anil Edakkunni, Michael J. Franklin, ...