In a service-oriented architecture, software services interact by means of message exchanges that follow certain patterns documented in the form of behavioural interfaces. As any s...
DisFC is an ABT-like algorithm that, instead of sending the value taken by the high priority agent, it sends the domain of the low priority agent that is compatible with that value...
Among the various options for implementing Internet packet filters in the form of Access Control Lists (ACLs), is the intuitive – but potentially crude – method of processing t...
Abstract. We establish mutual translations between the classes of 1safe timed-arc Petri nets (and its extension with testing arcs) and networks of timed automata (and its subclass ...
A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...