Table of Contents

Section I: Securing the Semantic Web; Section II: Policy Management and Web Security; Section III: Security for Emerging Applications.

About the Author

Elena Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of insubria, Como (Italy). From 1998 until January 2001, she was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milano (Italy). She received an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Milano (Italy) in 1992. In 1998, she received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same university. During summer 1996 she has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of George Mason University, Fairfax (Virginia). During summers 1997 and 1998 she has been a visiting researcher at Rutgers University, Newark (New Jersey). Bhavani Thuraisingham has recently joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). She received IEEE Computer Society's prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for ""outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management"". Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.