Trust Management on the World Wide Web (originally published in June 1998)

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Khare ◽  
Adam Rifkin
Keyword(s):  
Trust Management ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Filtering ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Mobile Code Security ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
The Web

This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue: Commercial Applications of the Internet, published in July 2006. For author reflections on this paper, visit the Special Issue. As once-proprietary mission-specific information systems migrate onto the Web, traditional security analysis cannot sufficiently protect each subsystem atomically. The Web encourages open, decentralized systems that span multiple administrative domains. Trust Management (TM) is an emerging framework for decentralizing security decisions that helps developers and others in asking "why" trust is granted rather than immediately focusing on "how" cryptography can enforce it. In this paper, we recap the basic elements of Trust Management: principles, principals, and policies. We present pragmatic details of Web-based TM technology for identifying principals, labeling resources, and enforcing policies. We sketch how TM might be integrated into Web applications for document authoring and distribution, content filtering, and mobile code security. Finally, we measure today's Web protocols, servers, and clients against this model, culminating in a call for stakeholders' support in bringing automatable TM to the Web.

scholarly journals Web-Based Job Aids Using RESTXQ and JavaScript for Authors of XML Documents

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Galtman
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Job Aids ◽  
Xml Documents ◽  
Software Company ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Visualization Application ◽  
Exchange Data ◽  
The Web

Using XML as the source format for authoring technical publications creates opportunities to develop tools that provide analysis, author guidance, and visualization. This case study describes two web applications that take advantage of the XML source format of documents. The applications provide a browser-based tool for technical writers and editors in a 100-person documentation department of a software company. Compared to desktop tools, the web applications are more convenient for users and less affected by hard-to-predict inconsistencies among users' computers. One application analyzes file dependencies and produces custom reports that facilitate reorganizing files. The other helps authors visualize their network of topics in their documentation sets. Both applications rely on the XQuery language and its RESTXQ web API. The visualization application also uses JavaScript, including the powerful jQuery and D3 libraries. After discussing what the applications do and why, this paper describes some architectural highlights, including how the different technologies fit together and exchange data.

Towards Ubiquitous and Adaptive Web-Based Multimedia Communications via the Cloud

2015 ◽  
pp. 307-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Panagiotakis ◽  
Ioannis Vakintis ◽  
Haroula Andrioti ◽  
Andreas Stamoulias ◽  
Kostas Kapetanakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Multimedia Communications ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
3D Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Web 3D ◽  
Service Adaptation ◽  
The Web

This chapter at first surveys the Web technologies that can enable ubiquitous and pervasive multimedia communications over the Web and then reviews the challenges that are raised by their combination. In this context, the relevant HTML5 APIs and technologies provided for service adaptation are introduced and the MPEG-DASH, X3Dom, and WebRTC frameworks are discussed. What is envisaged for the future of mobile multimedia is that with the integration of these technologies one can shape a diversity of future pervasive and personalized cloud-based Web applications, where the client-server operations are obsolete. In particular, it is believed that in the future Web cloud-based Web applications will be able to communicate, stream, and transfer adaptive events and content to their clients, creating a fully collaborative and pervasive Web 3D environment.

Specification of the Context of Use for the Development of Web-Based Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Marta Fernández de Arriba ◽  
Eugenia Díaz ◽  
Jesús Rodríguez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Development Team ◽  
Context Of Use ◽  
The Web

This chapter presents the structure of an index which serves as support so allowing the development team to create the specification of the context of use document for the development of Web applications, bearing in mind characteristics of usability and accessibility, each point of the index being explained in detail. A correct preparation of this document ensures the quality of the developed Web applications. The international rules and standards related to the identification of the context of use have been taken into account. Also, the functionality limitations (sensorial, physical, or cognitive) which affect access to the Web are described, as well as the technological environment used by disabled people (assistive technologies or alternative browsers) to facilitate their access to the Web content. Therefore, following the developed specification of the context of use, usable and accessible Web applications with their corresponding benefits can be created.

Web Authoring

2011 ◽  
pp. 122-156
Author(s):  
John DiMarco
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Development ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Microsoft Word ◽  
Software Skills ◽  
The Web

Web authoring is the process of developing Web pages. The Web development process requires you to use software to create functional pages that will work on the Internet. Adding Web functionality is creating specific components within a Web page that do something. Adding links, rollover graphics, and interactive multimedia items to a Web page creates are examples of enhanced functionality. This chapter demonstrates Web based authoring techniques using Macromedia Dreamweaver. The focus is on adding Web functions to pages generated from Macromedia Fireworks and to overview creating Web pages from scratch using Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver and Fireworks are professional Web applications. Using professional Web software will benefit you tremendously. There are other ways to create Web pages using applications not specifically made to create Web pages. These applications include Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. The use of Microsoft applications for Web page development is not covered in this chapter. However, I do provide steps on how to use these applications for Web page authoring within the appendix of this text. If you feel that you are more comfortable using the Microsoft applications or the Macromedia applications simply aren’t available to you yet, follow the same process for Web page conceptualization and content creation and use the programs available to you. You should try to get Web page development skills using Macromedia Dreamweaver because it helps you expand your software skills outside of basic office applications. The ability to create a Web page using professional Web development software is important to building a high-end computer skills set. The main objectives of this chapter are to get you involved in some technical processes that you’ll need to create the Web portfolio. Focus will be on guiding you through opening your sliced pages, adding links, using tables, creating pop up windows for content and using layers and timelines for dynamic HTML. The coverage will not try to provide a complete tutorial set for Macromedia Dreamweaver, but will highlight essential techniques. Along the way you will get pieces of hand coded action scripts and JavaScripts. You can decide which pieces you want to use in your own Web portfolio pages. The techniques provided are a concentrated workflow for creating Web pages. Let us begin to explore Web page authoring.

scholarly journals Cross Site Scripting Attacks in Web-Based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Aliga Paul Aliga ◽  
Adetokunbo MacGregor John-Otumu ◽  
Rebecca E Imhanhahimi ◽  
Atuegbelo Confidence Akpe
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Architectural Framework ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Cross Site ◽  
The Web

Web-based applications has turn out to be very prevalent due to the ubiquity of web browsers to deliver service oriented application on-demand to diverse client over the Internet and cross site scripting (XSS) attack is a foremost security risk that has continuously ravage the web applications over the years. This paper critically examines the concept of XSS and some recent approaches for detecting and preventing XSS attacks in terms of architectural framework, algorithm used, solution location, and so on. The techniques were analysed and results showed that most of the available recognition and avoidance solutions to XSS attacks are more on the client end than the server end because of the peculiar nature of web application vulnerability and they also lack support for self-learning ability in order to detect new XSS attacks. Few researchers as cited in this paper inculcated the self-learning ability to detect and prevent XSS attacks in their design architecture using artificial neural networks and soft computing approach; a lot of improvement is still needed to effectively and efficiently handle the web application security menace as recommended.

scholarly journals Trust management in opportunisitic networks: a semantic web-based approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Noelly Bonilla Tamez
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Opportunistic Networks ◽  
Use Case ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Web Based ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Web ◽  
Service Framework

The need for having a mechanism to automatically interpret content available on the Web without a human intervention has lead to the development of a new vision for the next generation of the Web, known as the Semantic Web. This new paradigm advocates the use of ontologies to achieve a common language for communication among humans, computers, and programs. In this thesis, a novel Semantic Web-based solution called SCOW-Q (Semantic Capability Discovery With QoS) model, is proposed, which provides an architectural basis for representing trust and trust management in Opportunistic Networks. The model is validated by means of a Use Case Scenario using a well-defined Semantic Web Service framework.

scholarly journals Web Browser Network Based on a BA Model for a Web-Based Virtual World

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaki Kohana ◽  
Shinji Sakamoto ◽  
Shusuke Okamoto
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Previous Method ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Coverage ◽  
The Web

Real-time web applications such as a virtual world require considerable computing resources. However, as the number of servers increases, so does the maintenance and financial cost. To share tasks among web browsers, the browsers must share data. Therefore, a network must be constructed among the web browsers. In this paper, we propose the construction of a web browser network based on the Barabasi–Albert model (BA model). We focus on a web-based multiplayer online game that requires higher frequent communication and significant computing resources. We attempt to optimize computing resource utilization for web browsers. We improve upon the method in our previous study, which constructed a network for a web-based virtual world, using only location information. When a new user logged into a world, the web browser connected to two other browsers whose users had a location close to that of the user. The experimental results of that method showed 50% data coverage, which was insufficient to display the game screen because the web browser displays the characters on the virtual world. In this study, we attempt to use the BA model to construct more efficient networks than those in the previous study to increase data coverage. Our new method uses the number of connections of the web browser and location information to calculate the probability of web browser selection. The experimental results show that the data coverage exceeds 90%, indicating significant improvement over the previous method.

Semantically Linking Information Resources for Web-Based Sharing

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junsheng Zhang ◽  
Yingfan Gao ◽  
Yanqing He ◽  
Hongjiao Xu ◽  
Chongde Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
Knowledge Propagation ◽  
Information Recommendation ◽  
Intelligent Information ◽  
The Web

Digital information resources on the web have been playing an important role during the information and knowledge propagation. Advanced applications such as intelligent information retrieval and information recommendation need the semantic relations among the digital information resources. Massive hyperlinks have existed in the current web; however, the semantic relations among the information resources are implicit or missing, and this has hindered the efficiency and effect of information sharing and information reuse, so it is necessary to evolve the hyperlinks to semantic links for enhancing the semantic connections between information resources on the web. Implicit and missing semantic links among the digital information resources are needed by the intelligent applications. In this paper, the authors propose an approach to enhance the semantic associations among digital information resources for realizing a semantic linked web. Applications based on semantic links are discussed and compared with applications on the current web. The semantic linked web can be regarded as a promising stage in the way to the semantic web.

Visual Environment for DOM-Based Wrapping and Client-Side Linkage of Web Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Kimihito Ito ◽  
Yuzuru Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

Web applications, which are computer programs ported to the Web, allow end-users to use various remote services and tools through their Web browsers. There are an enormous number of Web applications on the Web, and they are becoming the basic infrastructure of everyday life. In spite of the remarkable development of Web-based infrastructure, it is still difficult for end-users to compose new integrated tools of both existing Web applications and legacy local applications, such as spreadsheets, chart tools, and database. In this chapter, the authors propose a new framework where end-users can wrap remote Web applications into visual components, called pads, and functionally combine them together through drag-and-drop operations. The authors use, as the basis, a meme media architecture IntelligentPad that was proposed by the second author. In the IntelligentPad architecture, each visual component, called a pad, has slots as data I/O ports. By pasting a pad onto another pad, users can integrate their functionalities. The framework presented in this chapter allows users to visually create a wrapper pad for any Web application by defining HTML nodes within the Web application to work as slots. Examples of such a node include input-forms and text strings on Web pages. Users can directly manipulate both wrapped Web applications and wrapped local legacy tools on their desktop screen to define application linkages among them. Since no programming expertise is required to wrap Web applications or to functionally combine them together, end-users can build new integrated tools of both wrapped Web applications and local legacy applications.

An Adventure with Client-Side XSLT to an Architecture for Building Bridges with Javascript

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ford ◽  
Will Thompson
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

This paper describes the development process we undertook to extend the capabilities of an XML-based authoring and publishing system. Originally designed to deliver content for print and the web, we transformed it into one that delivers fully interactive web-based wizards whose steps are generated automatically based on logic encoded into the source documents. To meet our requirements for the application, we rejected conventional top-down XML or JavaScript frameworks and instead sought to unite JavaScript and XSLT to leverage the strengths of each. Despite being underutilized as a client-side technology, XSLT is still a valuable tool in the development of modern web applications. Its expressive nature, continuing support in browsers, and ability to integrate with a modern virtual DOM-based user interface framework allowed us to build a complex legal forms application that was simpler and more productive than more conventional approaches. Our application demonstrates opportunities for symbiosis with client-side XSLT that has potential beyond legal forms and for an architecture with implications beyond XSLT.

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