Pervasive systems require context awareness in order to be able to provide “anywhere, anytime” computing to mobile users. One type of context information is location informati...
For many mission-critical tasks, tight guarantees on the flow of information are desirable, for example, when handling important cryptographic keys or sensitive financial data. We...
Mohit Tiwari, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Bita Mazloom, S...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
Abstract. One of the most significant paradigm shifts of software business management is that individual organizations no longer compete as single entities but as complex dynamic ...
Slinger Jansen, Anthony Finkelstein, Sjaak Brinkke...
In this paper we define and provide a general construction for a class of policies we call dynamic policies. In most existing systems, policies are implemented and enforced by ch...
Prasad Naldurg, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickuna...