Role engineering, the task of defining roles and associating permissions to them, is essential to realize the full benefits of the role-based access control paradigm. Essentially,...
Life-like adaptive behaviour is so far an illusive goal in robot control. A capability to act successfully in a complex, ambiguous, and harsh environment would vastly increase the ...
Updates over virtual XML views that wrap relational data are not well supported by XML data management systems. This paper studies the problem of whether a correct relational upda...
Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
Business and scientific workflow management systems (WfMS) offer different features to their users because they are developed for different application areas with different require...