In this paper we consider some of the basic design principles that should support the development of future DRM systems. We begin by discussing some of the problems associated with current DRM environments, and how they might be alleviated through the adoption of an open architectural framework based on basic design principles. We then demonstrate a particular implementation referred to as the ...

Cloud defines a new age of computing solution that provides services to customers with its unique features of agility and multi-tenancy. As the critical resources are hosted at cloud provider’s end, security is a big challenge in cloud computing. If the cloud environment is compromised and attackers get the access of core data centers, the availability of the critical resources becomes a big co...

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...