—Role-based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most widespread security mechanisms in use today. Given the growing complexity of policy languages and access control systems, ver...
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are an established framework for solving sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty. In this work, we propose a new method for batchmod...
Many proposed protocols for replicated databases consider centralized control of each transaction so that given a transaction, some site will monitor the remote data access and tr...
Over recent years there has been increased level of discussion on utility pricing for software. The focus of these discussions is to create new operating cost models where the unit...
We propose a new approach to accessing databases through the Web that is based on the WebDAV protocol (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning). This paper introduces an ex...