Emergent self-organization in multi-agent systems appears to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. This paradox has been explained in terms of a coupling between the macro ...
The encryption system E0, which is the encryption system used in the Bluetooth specification, is examined. In the current paper, a method of deriving the cipher key from a set of ...
Decoupling authorization logic from application logic allows applications with fine-grain access control requirements to be independent from a particular access control policy and...
Konstantin Beznosov, Yi Deng, Bob Blakley, C. Burt...
The main focus of this paper is the problem of ensuring safety properties such as timeliness in safety critical systems. We introduce the OASIS model and its associated techniques ...
Vincent David, Jean Delcoigne, Evelyne Leret, Alai...
Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a u...