Controlling access to resources is one of the most important protection goals for web-based services in practice. In general, access control requires identification of subjects t...
Business rules are statements that express (certain parts of) a business policy, defining business terms and defining or constraining the operations of an enterprise, in a declar...
The diversity of spatial information systems promotes the need to integrate heterogeneous spatial or geographic information systems (GIS) in a cooperative environment. This paper ...
In this paper we present a software architecture which facilitates nomadic computing in an Open Distributed Computing environment. We introduce a model for the description of mobi...
In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...