Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
Policy refinement is meant to derive lower-level policies from higher-level ones so that these more specific policies are better suited for use in different execution environments...
Javier Rubio-Loyola, Joan Serrat, Marinos Charalam...
Natural language policies describe interactions between and across organizations, third-parties and individuals. However, current policy languages are limited in their ability to ...
Policy rules define what behavior is desired in a softwarebased system, they do not describe the corresponding action and event sequences that actually “produce” desired (“...