This paper presents a visual language called Miro for specifying and restricting operating system security configurations. A Miro picture specifies exactly what rights users have on files. A Miro constraint, also stated visually, restricts the set of Miro pictures which are considered legal. Such constraints on pictures give an exact specification of security policies and a practical method for...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2008.09.002 q Part of this work has been funded by the French AN 01-01 (ESSOR). * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (T paristech.fr (B. Pesquet-Popescu). This paper deals with distributed video coding (DVC) for multi-view sequences. DVC of multi-view sequences is a recent field of research, w...