The modular representation of concerns is imperative in the design modeling of multi-agent systems (MASs). However, MAS designers typically face a number of concerns that inherent...
Alessandro F. Garcia, Christina Chavez, Ricardo Ch...
Collusion-free protocols prevent subliminal communication (i.e., covert channels) between parties running the protocol. In the standard communication model, if one-way functions ex...
In an era of cooperating ad hoc networks and pervasive wireless connectivity, we are becoming more vulnerable to malicious attacks. Many of these attacks are silent in nature and ...
A generic theoretical framework for managing critical events in ubiquitous computing systems is presented. The main idea is to automatically respond to occurrences of critical eve...
Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna M. Venkatasubramanian, S...
Architectural patterns are a key point in architectural documentation. Regrettably, there is poor support for modeling architectural patterns, because the pattern elements are not...