Obligations are pervasive in modern systems, often linked to access control decisions. We present a very general model of obligations as objects with state, and discuss its interac...
Daniel J. Dougherty, Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishna...
We outline a model for a society of agents based upon one of the classical theories of sociology: The Weber’s model. We first investigate its links to agent technology through i...
Jacques Calmet, Anusch Daemi, Regine Endsuleit, Th...
Archival storage systems are designed for a write-once, read-maybe usage model which places an emphasis on the long-term preservation of their data contents. In contrast to tradit...
Access control is an important aspect of shared virtual environments. Resource access may not only depend on prior authorization, but also on context of usage such as distance or ...
Martin Scheffler, Jan P. Springer, Bernd Froehlich
Abstract— Many sensor networks (SN) use in-network aggregation to minimize the amount of data transmitted by sensors. Unfortunately, aggregation makes the network more vulnerable...