Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
The ASW protocol is one of the prominent optimistic fair exchange protocols that is used for contract signing between two participants, the originator and the responder, with the ...
Abstract. An active area of research in computer science is the prevention of violations of object protocols, i.e., restrictions on temporal orderings of method calls on an object....
Today’s intra-domain protocols are limited in their scalability. We examine these limitations and propose an alternative in the form of an IGP based on path vectors. Taking adva...
In this paper we discuss the need for resource reservation in the Internet and examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of RSVP, which is currently the most popular of Interne...