Policies are being increasingly used for automated system management and controlling the
behavior of complex systems. The use of policies allows administrators to modify system …

Web Services power through explicit representations of Web resources underlying
semantics and the development of an intelligent Web infrastructure that can fully exploit …

Several research groups have grappled with the problem of characterizing and developing
practical approaches for implementing adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction …

Outsourcing of complex IT infrastructure to IT service providers has increased substantially
during the past years. IT service providers must be able to fulfil their service-quality …

In recent years we have seen significant advances in the technology used to both publish
and consume structured data using the existing web infrastructure, commonly referred to as …

To increase the assurance with which agents can be deployed in operational settings, we
have been developing the KAoS policy and domain services. In conjunction with Nomads …

In this article we introduce KAoS, a policy and domain services framework based on W3C's
OWL ontology language. KAoS was developed in response to the challenges presented by …

With the development of cloud computing, the mutual understandability among distributed
Access Control Policies (ACPs) has become an important issue in the security field of cloud …

In large-scale systems-of-systems (SoSs) and/or distrib uted Systems, many different
authorization or access control mechanisms may be utilized to control access to system …

A method of implementing access control requirements to control access to a plurality of
system resources. The requirements are modeled as contents of security policies. The …