In this paper we introduce three alternative combinatorial formulations of the theory of evidence (ToE), by proving that both plausibility and commonality functions share the stru...
Motivated by applications that require mechanisms for describing the structure of object-oriented programs, adaptive star grammars are introduced, and their fundamental properties...
Frank Drewes, Berthold Hoffmann, Dirk Janssens, Ma...
In distributed systems users need to share sensitive objects with others based on the recipients' ability to satisfy a policy. Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a new parad...
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) implementations in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) have focused solely on Multilevel Security (MLS). MLS has posed a number of challe...
—Peer-to-peer file sharing applications became very popular, being responsible for a large percentage of the network traffic. However, peer-to-peer traffic may compromise the per...