Two things are done in this paper. First, a modal logic in which one can quantify over both objects and concepts is presented; a semantics and a tableau system are given. It is a n...
The usage control (UCON) model was introduced as a unified approach to capture a number of extensions for traditional access control models. While the policy specification flexibi...
Xinwen Zhang, Ravi S. Sandhu, Francesco Parisi-Pre...
Metadata plays an important role in discovering, collecting, extracting and aggregating Web data. This paper proposes a method of constructing metadata for a specific topic. The m...
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
This paper presents an approach to Concept Analysis of structured, multivalued and incomplete data currently present in life science knowledge bases. We are concerned with tree str...