The use of policy-based mechanisms significantly reduces the complexity associated with applicational development and operation. In particular, history-based policies allow the s...
MPI defines one-sided communication operations—put, get, and accumulate—together with three different synchronization mechanisms that define the semantics associated with th...
Developing computer systems that are both concurrent and evolving is challenging. To guarantee consistent access to resources by concurrent software components, some synchronizatio...
In this paper we propose a new agent communication language which separates agent dialogue from any specific agent reasoning technology. This language is intended to address a nu...
A long-standing problem in information security is how to specify and enforce expressive security policies that control information flow while also permitting information release...