The deployment of multi-agent systems demands for justified confidence into their behaviour, both with respect to correct results of computations and with respect to timeliness t...
Abstract. This paper presents a formal analysis of the device discovery phase of the Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. The performance of this process is the result of a c...
Marie Duflot, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman,...
This paper introduces teams of personal agents that support users individually in electronic negotiations. These agents listen to the running negotiation and to each other to point...
Reliable and atomic transactions are a key to successful eBusiness interactions. Reliable messaging subsystems, such as IBM’s MQ Series, or broker-based techniques have been tra...
We investigate the protection of migrating agents against the untrusted sites they traverse. The resulting calculus provides a formal framework to reason about protection policies ...