Abstract. We are developing a decentralized approach to trust based on referral systems, where agents adaptively give referrals to one another to find other trustworthy agents. In...
Abstract For an information-agent-based system to support virtual (Internet-supported) organisations, changes in environmental conditions often demand changes in organisational beh...
Abstract. Knowing the performance of an application in a Grid environment is an important issue in application development and for scheduling decisions. In this paper we describe t...
Abstract. Natural forming multi-agent systems have the ability to grow to enormous sizes and perform seemingly complex tasks without the existence of any centralized control. Their...
Abstract. Key exchange protocols in the setting of universal composability are investigated. First we show that the ideal functionality FKE of [9] cannot be realized in the presenc...