With the prevalence of loosely coupled web service composition in the service oriented infrastructure, distributed security management has become important to offer flexible web security. In our project affiliated with NatureServe [2], we developed a XACML [3, 4] policy oriented security system to provide trust data service to 75 network partners in the Natural Heritage Program [1]. A Horn Logi...

the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

This memo presents a set of extensions for supporting generic policy based admission control in RSVP. It should be perceived as an extension to the RSVP functional specifications [RSVP] These extensions include the standard format of POLICY_DATA objects, and a description of RSVP’s handling of policy events. This document does not advocate particular policy control mechanisms; however, a Router...

This memo presents a set of extensions for supporting generic policy based admission control in RSVP. It should be perceived as an extension to the RSVP functional specifications [RSVPSP] These extensions include the standard format of POLICY_DATA objects, and a description of RSVP’s handling of policy events. This document does not advocate particular policy control mechanisms; however, a Rout...

Abstract To fully understand state policy outcomes or elections in the US, we need valid over-time measures of state-level public opinion. We contribute to research on measuring opinion two ways. First, respond Berry, Fording, Hanson, and Crofoot’s (BFHC) critique Enns Koch’s measure mood. show that when BFHC’s analysis is performed using same states examining annual change, it validates Koch r...

We consider advanced policy description specifications in the context of Answer Set Programming (ASP). Motivated by our application scenario, we further extend an existing policy description language, so that it allows for expressing preferences among sets of objects. This is done by extending the concept of ordered disjunctions to cardinality constraints. We demonstrate that this extension is ...