Securing group communications in resource constrained, infrastructure-less environments such as Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) has become one of the most challenging research dire...
We consider the fundamental operation of applying a conjunction of selection conditions to a set of records. With large main memories available cheaply, systems may choose to keep...
“demonic” nondeterminism, representing abstraction from (or ignorance of) which of two program fragments will be executed. By introducing probabilistic nondeterminism into GCL,...
An organizational modeling language can be used to specify an agent organization in terms of its roles, organizational structure, norms, etc. Such an organizational specification ...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholij...
Abstract: Recently a growing demand has arisen for methods for the development of smalland medium scale Web Information Systems (WIS). Web applications are being built in a rapidly...