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CLIMA
2004
15 years 7 months ago
A Computational Model for Conversation Policies for Agent Communication
In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexi...
Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Mey...
ENTCS
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Compositional System Security with Interface-Confined Adversaries
This paper presents a formal framework for compositional reasoning about secure systems. A key insight is to view a trusted system in terms of the interfaces that the various comp...
Deepak Garg, Jason Franklin, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, ...
CCS
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Confidentiality-preserving distributed proofs of conjunctive queries
Distributed proof construction protocols have been shown to be valuable for reasoning about authorization decisions in open distributed environments such as pervasive computing sp...
Adam J. Lee, Kazuhiro Minami, Nikita Borisov
ICFP
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Typed closure conversion preserves observational equivalence
Language-based security relies on the assumption that all potential attacks are bound by the rules of the language in question. When programs are compiled into a different languag...
Amal Ahmed, Matthias Blume
RECOMB
2002
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Revealing protein structures: a new method for mapping antibody epitopes
A recent idea for determining the three-dimensional structure of a protein uses antibody recognition of surface structure and random peptide libraries to map antibody epitope comb...
Brendan Mumey, Brian W. Bailey, Edward A. Dratz