Many software projects have failed because their requirements were poorly negotiated among stakeholders. This paper proposes a systematic model, called "MultiCriteria Prefere...
Threshold cryptosystems and signature schemes give ways to distribute trust throughout a group and increase the availability of cryptographic systems. A standard approach in design...
: Software agents comprise a new area for research and soon will be embedded and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. In this formative phase, it is important to develop compreh...
Mary Ellen Zurko Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Digital Equipment Corporation Littleton, MA, 01460 This paper describes the User Attribu...
In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...