Web services technologies are advancing fast and being extensively deployed in many di?
erent application environments. Web services based on the eXt-sible Markup Language …

A framework for maintaining security & preserving privacy for analysis of sensor data from
smart homes, without compromising on data utility is presented. Storing the personally …

Various types of security goals, such as authentication or confidentiality, can be defined as
policies for process-aware information systems, typically in a manual fashion. Therefore, we …

Automated testing and continuous integration are established concepts in today's software
engineering landscape, but they work in a kind of isolated environment as they do not fully …

Security policies constrain the behavior of all users of an information system. In any non-
trivial system, these security policies go beyond simple access control rules and must cover …

ID cards, public transport tickets, and diplomas are examples of credentials that society has
established as a means to provide trustworthy information to others. In the digital world, the …

Abstract Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will form the basis of future information
systems. Web services are a promising way to implement SOA enabling the loose coupling …

One of the most significant difficulties with developing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
involves meeting its security challenges, since the responsibilities of SOA security are based …

BACKGROUND In computer system security, access control is often used as an approach to
restrict system access to authorized users. Role-based access control is a particular …

We consider the problem of blind equalization of linear communication channels. Some
results indicate that the performance of Bussgang blind equalization algorithms can be …