Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
Agent-based approaches in application development seem to meet the requirements of adaptability, scalability, decentralization, and flexibility imposed by complex software systems....
Role based access control (RBAC) allows users access to resources based on their competencies and responsibilities within an organization. Typically, RBAC is provided as a securit...
In this paper, we follow the role-based access control (RBAC) approach and extend it to provide for the dynamic association of roles with users. In our framework, privileges assoc...
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko...
In many areas of software engineering, empirical studies are playing an increasingly important role. This stems from the fact that software technologies are often based on heurist...