Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligatio...
Abstract: Recently, Distributed Hash Tables evolved to a preferred approach for decentralized data management in widely distributed systems. Due to their crucial characteristics ...
Tobias Heer, Heiko Niedermayer, Leo Petrak, Simon ...
In recent literature it is commonly agreed that the first phase of the software development process is still an area of concern. Furthermore, while software technology has been ch...
The computer systems that provide the information underpinnings for critical infrastructure applications, both military and civilian, are essential to the operation of those appli...
John C. Knight, Elisabeth A. Strunk, Kevin J. Sull...