In several organizations, it has become increasingly popular to document and log the steps that makeup a typical business process. In some situations, a normative workflow model o...
Although integrity constraints have long been used to maintain data consistency, there are situations in which they may not be enforced or satisfied. In this paper, we present Con...
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
With the development of emerging social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, security and privacy threats arising from social network analysis bring a risk of disclosure of con...
Self-calibrating designs are gaining momentum in both the computation and communication worlds. Instead of relying on the worst-case characterisation of design parameters, self-ca...