Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. Unfortunately, security issues restrict...
In a database system, authorization-based access-control is generally the first line of defense, preventing unauthorized accesses to secret or sensitive data. However, this mechan...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodi...
We argue that in a distributed context, such as the Semantic Web, ontology engineers and data creators often cannot control (or even imagine) the possible uses their data or ontolo...
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Peter Edwards, Alun D. Pr...
Allen’s interval calculus is one of the most prominent formalisms in the domain of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Applications of this calculus, however, are restric...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of consistency preservation in model-driven software development. Software models typically embody many different views that need to be ...
Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Viviane Jonckers, Tom M...