As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security works to create an integrated emergency response system, it is evident that computer-based solutions can support this process. Individu...
Eytan Pollak, Mark Falash, Lorie Ingraham, Vivian ...
-- One of the benefits of a computational grid is the ability to run high-performance applications over distributed resources simply and securely. We demonstrated this benefit with...
Anand Natrajan, Michael Crowley, Nancy Wilkins-Die...
User centricity is a significant concept in federated identity management (FIM), as it provides for stronger user control and privacy. However, several notions of user-centricity...
Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, Jan Camenisch, Thomas ...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...