Web services represent the latest effort of the information technology industry to provide a framework for cross enterprise automation. One principal characteristic of this framewo...
By ‘Obligation Management’ we refer to the definition, automated enforcement, and monitoring of privacy obligation policies. Privacy policies are nowadays found on most organi...
All Internet-accessible computing systems are currently faced with incessant threats ranging from simple scriptkiddies to highly sophisticated criminal enterprises. In response to...
In this paper we propose a new framework for dynamic distributed query processing based on so-called HyperQueries which are essentially query evaluation sub-plans “sitting behin...
Web Services (WS hereafter) Security is a crucial aspect for technologies based on this paradigm to be completely adopted by the industry. As a consequence, a lot of initiatives h...