A reflective approach for modeling and implementing authorization systems is presented. The advantages of the combined use of computational reflection and authorization mechanisms...
Massimo Ancona, Walter Cazzola, Eduardo B. Fern&aa...
Charging of services in a distributed system will become more and more important for systems which are utilized commercially. Such an important distributed system exists in form o...
Burkhard Stiller, Jan Gerke, Placi Flury, Peter Re...
In a component-based system components are basic computation units implementing specific business functions, and their interactions are explicitly represented by connectors. If th...
Context-aware middleware encompasses uniform ions and reliable services for common operations, supports for most of the tasks involved in dealing with context, and thus simplifyin...
Hung Quoc Ngo, Anjum Shehzad, Kim Anh Pham Ngoc, S...
Users of complex applications need advice, assistance, and feedback while they work. We are experimenting with “adjunct” user agents that are aware of the history of interacti...
Robert G. Farrell, Peter G. Fairweather, Eric Brei...