Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Web Services (WS) provide a flexible computing platform for electronic business and commerce. Introducing policy-based computing to service-or...
E-commerce as well as B2B applications are essentially based on interactions between different people and organizations (e.g. industry, banks, customers) that usually exploit the ...
Mario Bravetti, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi, Gia...
An emerging class of data-intensive applications involve the geographically dispersed extraction of complex scientific information from very large collections of measured or compu...
William E. Allcock, Joseph Bester, John Bresnahan,...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...