Abstract. Embedded information assurance applications that are critical to national and international infrastructures, must often adhere to certification regimes that require infor...
Knowledge-based programs (KBPs) are a powerful notion for expressing action policies in which branching conditions refer to implicit knowledge and call for a deliberation task at e...
Cache coherence protocols of current shared-memory multiprocessors are difficult to verify. Our previous work proposed an extension of Lamport's logical clocks for showing th...
Anne Condon, Mark D. Hill, Manoj Plakal, Daniel J....
Swarm is a computational model which extends the UNITY model in three important ways: (1) UNITY’s fixed set of variables is replaced by an unbounded set of tuples which are add...
It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...