We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
Due to the existence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals and policies, alterations to the existing Internet are now limited to simple incremental updates; deployment o...
The ability to enforce usage policies attached to data in a fine grained manner requires that the system be able to trace and control the flow of information within it. This paper...
Srijith Krishnan Nair, Patrick N. D. Simpson, Brun...
Today, critical infrastructures like the power grid are essentially physical processes controlled by computers connected by networks. They are usually as vulnerable as any other i...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia...
This paper presents an assessment of the communication overheads of IPsec and evaluates the feasibility of deploying it on handheld devices for the UMTS architecture. A wide range...
Christos Xenakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Lazaros F. M...