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An Ontology For Autonomic License Management, Qian Zhao, Mark Perry
An Ontology For Autonomic License Management, Qian Zhao, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
The license agreement can be seen as the knowledge source for a license management system. As such, it may be referenced by the system each time a new process is initiated. To facilitate access, a machine readable representation of the license agreement is highly desirable, but at the same time we do not want to sacrifice too much readability of such agreements by human beings. Creating an ontology as a formal knowledge representation of licensing not only meets the representation requirements, but also offers improvements to knowledge reusability owing to the inherent sharing nature of such representations. Furthermore, the XML-based …
A Framework For Automatic Sla Creation, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
A Framework For Automatic Sla Creation, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
Negotiation is fundamental to business. Increased automation of business to business or business to customer interaction is demanding efficient but flexible systems that can manage the negotiation process with minimal direct human intervention. Industries that provide online services rely on Service Level Agreements as the basis for their contractual relationship. Here we look at a means for generating these with a negotiating tool (SLA Negotiation Manager) that complies with e-negotiation rules and creates the agreements from existing business objectives.
Verifiable Electronic Voting System: An Open Source Solution, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
Verifiable Electronic Voting System: An Open Source Solution, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
Elections, referenda and polls are vital processes for the operation of a modern democracy. They form the mechanism for transferring power from citizens to their representatives. Although some commentators claim that the pencil-and-paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best method of avoiding voterigging, recent election problems, and the need for faster, better, cheaper vote counting, have stimulated great interest in managing the election process through the use of electronic voting systems. While computer scientists, for the most part, have been warning of the possible perils of such action, vendors have forged ahead with …
Who Counts Your Votes?, Halina Kaminski, Lila Kari, Mark Perry
Who Counts Your Votes?, Halina Kaminski, Lila Kari, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
Open and fair elections are paramount to modern democracy. Although some people claim that the penciland- paper systems used in countries such as Canada and UK are still the best method of avoiding vote rigging, recent election problems have sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of electronic voting systems. It is a goal of this paper to describe a voting system that is secret and secure as well as verifiable and useable over an existing computer network. We have designed and implemented an electronic voting system – Verifiable E-Voting (VEV) – with an underlying protocol …
Open Source Software Licensing Patterns, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
Open Source Software Licensing Patterns, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
Mark Perry
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