— We present Bristlecone, a programming language for robust software systems. Bristlecone applications have two components: a high-level organization specification that describe...
The semantic Web and Web service technologies have provided both new possibilities and challenges to automatic information processing. There are a lot of researches on applying th...
The PolicyUpdater1 system is a generic access control system that provides policy evaluations and dynamic policy updates. These functions are achieved by the use of a logic-based ...
Scale-out approach, in contrast to scale-up approach (exploring increasing performance by utilizing more powerful shared-memory servers), refers to deployment of applications on a...
Web applications are important, ubiquitous distributed systems whose current security relies primarily on server-side mechanisms. This paper makes the end-toend argument that the ...