Trust and authority are essential components that must be factored in designing and implementing a distributed access control mechanism for open environments. This paper presents ...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
In this paper, precedence constraint combination formalisms defined in the software domain are used to define the behavior of hardware systems. Specifically, AND-join and various ...
Kenneth G. Ricks, David Jeff Jackson, B. Earl Well...
This paper introduces an approach to representing the kinds of information that components in a natural language generation (NLG) system will need to communicate to one another. T...
Chris Mellish, Roger Evans, Lynne J. Cahill, Chris...
Increased competition, complex service provision chains and integrated service offerings require effective techniques for the rapid integration of telecommunications services and ...
David Lewis, Thanassis Tiropanis, Alistair McEwan,...