AsmL is a novel executable specification language based on the theory of State Machines (ASMs). It represents one of the most powerful practical engines to write and execute ASMs...
This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
We show that any institution I satisfying some reasonable conditions can be transformed into another institution, Ibeh, which captures formally and abstractly the intuitions of add...
We provide an effective procedure for deciding the existence of off-line guessing attacks on security protocols, for a bounded number of sessions. The procedure consists of a co...
In a previous paper, we developed an algebraic theory of threads and multi-threads based on strategic interleaving. This theory includes a number of plausible interleaving strategi...