Abstract. Recently, component-based application developments to improve the software productivity and reusability have attracted our attention. The components are parts for buildin...
Massively deploying RFID systems while preserving people's privacy and data integrity is a major security challenge of the coming years. Up to now, it was commonly believed th...
We describe the design and implementation of a trust-management system Soutei, a dialect of Binder, for access control in distributed systems. Soutei policies and credentials are w...
Lessons learned processes, and software systems that support them, have been developed by many organizations (e.g., all USA military branches, NASA, several Department of Energy or...
We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...