three levels of abstraction in system modeling. Computation Independent Model (CIM) corresponds to the system's domain model and is similar to the domain ontology. It does not...
— The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we introduce a novel policy language, called CIM-SPL (Simple Policy Language for CIM) that complies with the CIM (Common Inform...
Dakshi Agrawal, Seraphin B. Calo, Kang-Won Lee, Jo...
Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to promote better software changeability than objectoriented (OO) techniques, there is no empiri...
Phil Greenwood, Thiago T. Bartolomei, Eduardo Figu...
—Innovation in gateways for data gathering sensor networks has lagged compared to advances in mote-class devices, leaving us with a limited set of options for deploying such syst...
The recent outbreaks of extremely fast spreading worms highlight the inadequacy of the current patching approach. Intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) that automatically generate a...