Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks have recently emerged as good candidate infrastructure for building novel large-scale and robust Internet applications in which participat...
A swarm algorithm framework (SWAF), realized by agent-based modeling, is presented to solve numerical optimization problems. Each agent is a bare bones cognitive architecture, whic...
Effective and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid users and service providers. We incorporate QoS man...
We develop a framework for specifying and reasoning about policies for sharing resources in coalitions, focussing here on a particular, common type of contract in which coalition ...
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi, Marek J. Sergot, Anna Ci...
In this paper, we present a security framework that provides identity protection against active and passive attacks for end-points. The framework is based on a two-round-trip authe...