Data-intensive e-science applications often rely on third-party data found in public repositories, whose quality is largely unknown. Although scientists are aware that this uncert...
Alun D. Preece, Binling Jin, Paolo Missier, R. Mar...
Some promising recent schemes for XML access control employ encryption for implementing security policies on published data, avoiding data duplication. In this paper we study one ...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...
Middleware support for pervasive context-aware systems relieves context-aware applications from dealing with the complexity of context-specific operations such as context acquisit...
Kamran Sheikh, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen