Cross-domain interoperation based on role-mapping increasingly becomes a representative
research field of collaborative environment. However, in this collaborative environment …

Background and architectural considerations for identity enabled user-centric QoS policy
management are discussed. Different strategies for usage of identity information for …

Current research efforts are being directed to commit with the long-term view of self-
management properties for wireless telecommunications. Technology has transformed the …

The computation of good and optimal handover decisions is a significant problem in a
heterogeneous network environment. This is exacerbated when the goal is to provide …

Policy-based network management is a necessity for managing large-scale environments. It
provides the means for separating high-level system requirements from the actual …

Around how to design policy-based network management system of QoS, this paper
proposed a system architecture with the QoS policy conflict detection and digestion function …

Policy-based security is an effective and convenient approach to manage information
systems. By this approach, we can handle easily all behaviors of a system thought a set of …

The new paradigm in mobile services lies in providing a location-based user experience
and here lies the tremendous scope for expansion of location-based services (LBS). One of …

Recent advancements in document handling tools have greatly simplified the tasks of
reusing content and copying between secure and unsecure locations. As a result, intentional …

This thesis describes a data provenance framework and other associated frameworks for
utilizing provenance for data quality and reproducibility. We first identify the requirements for …