Self-adapting software adapts its behavior in an autonomic way, by dynamically adding, suppressing and recomposing components, and by the use of computational reflection. One way t...
Abstract. The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of...
Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paol...
The growing diffusion of portable devices enables users to benefit from anytime and anywhere impromptu collaboration. Appropriate policy models that take into account the dynamici...
Abstract. Role-based access control (RBAC) is recognized as an excellent model for access control in large-scale networked applications. Formalization of RBAC in a logical approach...
Firewalls are important perimeter security mechanisms that imple-ment an organisation's network security requirements and can be notoriously difficult to configure correctly. ...
Arosha K. Bandara, Antonis C. Kakas, Emil C. Lupu,...