This paper studies argumentation-based dialogues between agents. It takes a previously defined system by which agents can trade arguments and examines the outcomes of the dialogu...
A reason to distribute constraint satisfaction is privacy: agents may not want to share their values, and they may wish to keep constraints as private as possible. In this paper, w...
Transformation of data documents is of special importance to use XML as the universal data interchange format on the Web. Data transformation is used in many tasks that require dat...
Processor obsolescence is a serious maintenance problem for long-lived embedded control systems. A practical solution is to interpose an emulator program between the ‘legacy’ s...
In multi-hop wireless networks, every node is expected to forward packets for the benefit of other nodes. Yet, if each node is its own authority, then it may selfishly deny packe...