All security services rely to a great extent on some notion of trust. However, even today, there is no accepted formalism or technique for the specification of trust and for reaso...
Abstract. This paper proposes a new model of communication in multiagent systems according to which the semantics of communication depends on their pragmatics. Since these pragmati...
Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Wei&sz...
This paper presents a security characterisation process framework for software components and their compositions in order to address the issue of trust in component based software...
Abstract. Specification diagrams (SD's) are a novel form of graphical notation for specifying open distributed object systems. The design goal is to define notation for specif...
Courseware increasingly consists of generic information and communication tools. These offer a plethora of functionalities, but their usefulness to a particular learning community ...