Shareable data services providing consistency guarantees, such as atomicity (linearizability), make building distributed systems easier. However, combining linearizability with ef...
Chryssis Georgiou, Peter M. Musial, Alexander A. S...
We propose an agent-based framework for assisting and simplifying person-to-person communication for information gathering tasks. As an example, we focus on locating experts for a...
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
Dependently typed lambda calculi such as the Logical Framework (LF) can encode relationships between terms in types and can naturally capture correspondences between formulas and ...
Identity Management plays a crucial role in many application contexts, including e-governments, e-commerce, business intelligence, investigation, and homeland security. The variet...