Green sustainability-oriented features have become common in network nodes and
protocols. Running a network in an energy-efficient way is an important concern of network …

Policy-based mechanisms have been effectively used to realize autonomic behavior in the
constituent elements of distributed systems. However, current prevalent policy models based …

Abstract Making the Internet of Things (IoT) a reality will contribute to extend the context-
aware ability of numerous sensitive applications. We can foresee that the context of users …

Access control systems are widely used means for the protection of computing systems.
They are defined in terms of access control policies regulating the access to system …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable interest in the research
community, because of their wide range of applications. However, due to the distributed …

Data usage control enables data owners to enforce policies over how their data may be
used after they have been released and accessed. We address distributed aspects of this …

Home wireless networks are difficult to manage and comprehend because of evolving
locality, co-locality, connectivity and interaction. We define formal models of home wireless …

Advances in mobile phone technology and the growth of associated networks have been
phenomenal over the last decade. Therefore, they have been the focus of much academic …

In the era of service-oriented computing, ICT systems exponentially grow in their size and
complexity, becoming more and more dynamic and distributed, often spanning across …

Data leakage has become a problem of epidemic proportions with very serious
consequences for businesses and their customers. Experts warn that it is very difficult for …