Just as POMDPs have been used to reason explicitly about uncertainty in single-agent systems, there has been recent interest in using multi-agent POMDPs to coordinate teams of age...
In automated trust negotiation (ATN), two parties exchange digitally signed credentials that contain attribute information to establish trust and make access control decisions. Be...
Abstract. We present INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from autonomous, distributed, semantically heterogen...
Doina Caragea, Jyotishman Pathak, Jie Bao, Adrian ...
The domain of digital rights management (DRM) is currently lacking a generic architecture that supports interoperability and reuse of specific DRM technologies. This lack of arch...
Sam Michiels, Kristof Verslype, Wouter Joosen, Bar...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...