Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security po...
Network-centric computing aims to solve the problems associated with traditional client/server systems, namely the high performance requirements, and costly maintenance of, the co...
The wide acceptance of object-oriented environments and proposals has renewed interest in all the class inheritance related issues; in particular its implementation in distributed...
Giuliano Armano, Antonio Corradi, Letizia Leonardi...
Abstract. Policies, sets of rules that govern permission to access resources, have long been used in computer security and online privacy management; however, the usability of auth...
Robert W. Reeder, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, C...
—The advent of distributed and ad-hoc-connected systems such as in Ambient Intelligence applications confronts developers with the question on how to specify QoS- and security po...