In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...
Abstract. Hippocratic Databases have been proposed as a mechanism to guarantee the respect of privacy principles in data management. We argue that three major principles are missin...
Truly autonomic networks ultimately require self-modifying, evolving protocol software. Otherwise humans must intervene in every situation that has not been anticipated at design t...
Abstract. The advent of context-aware computing requires a new paradigm in information management. Context information in a computing environment will take the form of disparate an...
An increasing number of applications are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such as CORBA. Many of these applications require the underlying middleware...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...