In this paper we develop a notion of “objective trust” for Software Agents, that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experiential ...
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors...
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mik...
Access control policies are often specified in declarative languages. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called mutation verification, to assess the quality of properties...
Evan Martin, JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Vincent C. Hu
Our work addresses protection of hardware IP at the mask level with the goal of preventing unauthorized manufacturing. The proposed protocol based on chip locking and activation i...
Firewalls are hardware and software systems that protect a network from attacks coming from the Internet. Packet filtering firewalls are efficient, fast and provide a good level o...