Abstract. The past few years have seen the emergence of a large number of proposals for electronic payments over open networks. Among these proposals is the Secure Electronic Trans...
With the spread of the Internet the computing model on server systems is undergoing several important changes. Recent research ideas concerning dynamic operating system extensibil...
When packet filtering is used as a security mechanism, different routers may need to cooperate to enforce the desired security policy. It is difficult to ensure that they will d...
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors...
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mik...
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...