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POLICY
2004
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Cassandra: Distributed Access Control Policies with Tunable Expressiveness
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Moritz Y. Becker, Peter Sewell
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Towards the Operational Semantics of User-Centric Communication Models
Abstract—The pervasiveness of complex communication services and the need for end-users to play a greater role in developing communication services have resulted in the creation ...
Yingbo Wang, Yali Wu, Andrew A. Allen, Barbara Esp...
ICALP
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Secure Games with Polynomial Expressions
Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung
ICRA
1999
IEEE
183views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Agent-Based Planning and Control of a Multi-Manipulator Assembly System
This paper presents a distributed planning and control architecture for autonomous Multi-Manipulator Systems (MMS). The control architecture is implemented using an agent-based ap...
Juan C. Fraile, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep ...
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado Codes to Speed Up Downloads
Mirror sites enable client requests to be serviced by any of a number of servers, reducing load at individual servers and dispersing network load. Typically, a client requests serv...
John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher