Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
This paper presents the design of an open architecture for heterogeneous negotiating agents. Both the system level architecture as well as the architecture for negotiating agents a...
Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykh...
Although mobile agents are a promising technology, the large-scale deployment of agents and the existence of hosts running agencies will not happen until proper security mechanism...
We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutabl...
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...