With the emergence of the Internet, collaborative computing has become more feasible than ever. Organizations can share valuable information among each other. However, certain user...
In this paper, we introduce the concept of "user policies" and its applications to the browsing of HTML documents. The objective of policies is to specify user preferenc...
This paper is concerned with the design of goal-oriented scheduling policies that deal with multiple goals on production parallel systems. Several objective models are compared, i...
Combining various knowledge types - and reasoning methods - in knowledge-based systems is a challenge to the knowledge representation task. The paper describes an object-oriented,...
This paper describes a security architecture designed to support role-based access control for distributed object systems in a large-scale, multi-organisational enterprise in whic...