We assume that safety of information stored in a database depends on the reliability of the agents who have performed the insertions in the database. We present a logic S to repres...
Laurence Cholvy, Robert Demolombe, Andrew J. I. Jo...
We analyze the multi-party contract-signing protocols of Garay and MacKenzie (GM) and of Baum and Waidner (BW). We use a finite-state tool, MOCHA, which allows specification of pr...
Abstract. Many "semiring-like" structures are used in Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problems (SCSPs). We review a few properties of semirings that are useful for dealing w...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...
This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for constructing and reasoning about mobile agents. The framework is formulated as a process calculus and has two contrib...