This paper proposes a logic-oriented framework for institutional agents specification and analysis. Within this framework institutional agents are seen as artificial agents that a...
Developing automated agents that intelligently perform complex real world tasks is time consuming and expensive. The most expensive part of developing these intelligent task perfo...
This paper presents a new approach called model-carrying code (MCC) for safe execution of untrusted code. At the heart of MCC is the idea that untrusted code comes equipped with a...
R. Sekar, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Samik Basu, Sande...
Abstract. The need for effective testing techniques for architectural level descriptions is widely recognised. However, due to the variety of domain-specific architectural descript...
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...