Dataflow synchronous languages have attracted considerable interest in domains such as real-time control and hardware design. The potential benefits are promising: Discrete-time...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
With the emergence of modularized componentbased electronic services, such as Web Services and semantically tagged services, Individual Service Provisioning, wherein any user can ...
We address the goal of making Delegation Logic (DL) into a practically implementable and tractable trustmanagement system. DL [22] is a logic-based knowledge representation (i.e.,...
The need for information integration is paramount in many biological disciplines, because of the large heterogeneity in both the types of data involved and in the diversity of app...