Although there have been several attempts to create grid systems, there is no clear definition for grids. In this paper, a formal approach is presented for defining elementary func...
A communication channel from an honest sender A to an honest receiver B can be described as a system with three interfaces labeled A, B, and E (the adversary), respectively, where...
This paper introduces “micro-scalability” as a novel design objective for social reasoning architectures operating in open multiagent systems. Microscalability is based on the ...
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Software systems are often model checked by translating them into a directly model-checkable formalism. Any serious software system requires application of compositional reasoning ...