A major task in designing systems development is the systematic elaboration of functional system requirements and their integration into the environment of the overall technical s...
PAGODA (Policy And GOal Based Distributed Autonomy) is a modular architecture for specifying and prototyping autonomous systems. A PAGODA node (agent) interacts with its environme...
Denial of service (DoS) attacks are arguably one of the most cumbersome problems in the Internet. This paper presents a distributed information system (over a set of completely co...
Matthias Baumgart, Christian Scheideler, Stefan Sc...
A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that...
Michael A. Grasso, David S. Ebert, Timothy W. Fini...
Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties with different criteria, constraints, and preferences, jointly reach an agreement on the terms of a transaction. Many current...