We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
We describe a system whose purpose is to explore the use of certificates for the distributed management of access rights for resources that have multiple, independent, and geograp...
William E. Johnston, Srilekha Mudumbai, Mary R. Th...
In this paper, we describe the Vannotea system - an application designed to enable collaborating groups to discuss and annotate collections of high quality images, video, audio or...
Ronald Schroeter, Jane Hunter, Jonathon Guerin, Im...
Abstract—Vocabulary alignment is a main challenge in distributed access control as peers should understand each other’s policies unambiguously. Ontologies enable mutual underst...
Daniel Trivellato, Fred Spiessens, Nicola Zannone,...
Abstract--Distributed medium access control (MAC) is essential for a wireless network without a central controller. In previous work of the authors, a distributed MAC scheme has be...
Hai Jiang, Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang, H. Vincent Po...