Abstract. In complex multi agent systems, the agents may be heterogeneous and possibly designed by different programmers. Thus, the importance of defining a standard framework for ...
Modern object-oriented languages have complex features that cause programmers to overspecify their programs. This overspeciļ¬cation hinders automatic optimizers, since they must ...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
Common programming practice grants excess authority for the sake of functionality; programming principles require least authority for the sake of security. If we practice our princ...
Are computing systems trustworthy? To answer this, we need to know three things: what the systems are supposed to do, what they are not supposed to do, and what they actually do. A...