Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the
purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In its early days it was criticised as …

During the last years, a continuous convergence and fusion of computing and networking
systems is stressed in the ICT research community. Context awareness appears to be a …

The Ponder language provides a common means of specifying security policies that map
onto various access control implementation mechanisms for firewalls, operating systems …

访问控制的任务是保证信息资源不被非法使用和访问, 冲突检测与消解主要解决不同信息系统
安全策略不统一的问题. 随着计算机和网络通信技术的发展, 先后出现了自主访问控制模型 …

We describe a policy language designed for pervasive computing applications that is based
on deontic concepts and grounded in a semantic language. The pervasive computing …

We address the problem of authorization in large-scale, open, distributed systems.
Authorization decisions are needed in electronic commerce, mobile-code execution, remote …

The advent of emerging computing technologies such as service-oriented architecture and
cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and …

Along with developing specifications for the description of meta-data and the extraction of
information for the Semantic Web, it is important to maximize security in this environment …

We introduce a unified framework that interrelates three different types of policies that will be
used in autonomic computing system: action, goal, and utility function policies. Our policy …

We describe our initial implementation of the KAoS policy and domain services. While
primarily oriented to the dynamic and complex requirements of software agent applications …