Authorisation and Representation before Leviathan

External validity of trials should be taken into account before asthma drug candidates reach market authorisation.

Ethical Perspectives on the Postmodern Communications Leviathan

Advertising and other forms of promotional activity have proliferated to such an extent that they may constitute a form of social pollution (Kitchen, 1994). The quantity and tone of communications to which consumers are exposed may have a subtle but pervasive effect on the social ecology of the developed world. Not only are Marketing Communications delivered in unprecedented quantities (Kitchen...

Biometric authentication and authorisation infrastructures

Specification of Authorisation Services

This document describes MAFTIA authorisation services and how they will be implemented in the MAFTIA architecture. The authorisation services implement a fine grain protection, i.e., capable of protecting each object method invocation, in order to satisfy as much as possible the least privilege principle and to obtain the best protection efficacy. The authorisation schemes are flexible and rich...

Authorisation in Grid computing

This paper briefly surveys how authorisation in Grid computing has evolved during the last few years, and presents the latest developments in which Grid applications can utilise a policy controlled authorisation infrastructure to make decisions about which users are allowed to perform which actions on which Grid resources. The paper describes the Global Grid Forum SAML interface for connecting ...