Abstract. Refutation proofs can be viewed as a special case of constraint propagation, which is a fundamental technique in solving constraint-satisfaction problems. The generalizat...
Albert Atserias, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Moshe Y. Var...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
We present a model of access control which provides fine-grained data-dependent control, can express permissions about permissions, can express delegation, and can describe syste...
Dimitar P. Guelev, Mark Ryan, Pierre-Yves Schobben...
A "chance" is an event or a situation significant for making a decision in a complex environment. Since we organized a session of Chance Discovery in KES 2000, the basic...
Selection of Commercial-off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products is a knowledge-intensive process. In this paper, we show how knowledge bases can be used to facilitate the COTS selec...