SOA proposed security mechanisms are only centered in the data transmitted between service provider and consumer. However, it’s well known that the biggest threats to the integrity of the information are precisely focused not on the data directly but on the code that manages it. Our main statement is that it will only be possible to reach an acceptable level of security if the protection mechan...

Title of Dissertation: Architecture for Guaranteed Delay Service in High Speed Networks Vinod Peris, Doctor of Philosophy, 1997 Dissertation directed by: Professor Armand Makowski Department of Electrical Engineering The increasing importance of network connections coupled with the lack of abundant link capacity suggests that the day when service guarantees are required by individual connection...

[Context and motivation] Product line variability models have been primarily used for product configuration purposes. We suggest that such models contain information that is relevant for early software engineering activities too. [Question/Problem] So far, the knowledge contained in variability models has not been used to improve requirements elicitation activities. State-of-the-art requirement...

Wiki and blog which enable end users to do their works only with a Web browser, since those tools do not require end users to learn some special skills about HTML. Some of end users have also involved in “End-user programming”, by writing some tools to change a behavior of an application to make their personal works more effectively. However, these tools are too difficult to be shared with othe...

configuration of urban land use arrangement system, how to divide and how to use urban lands are advantages of environmental, economic, social, politic and rightly forces. with extension of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning, this concept is more widely hold a special place in the form of projects such as: land preparation, framework planning, general and comprehensive,...