Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discove...
We define a transformation from a left-linear constructor-based conditional rewrite system into an overlapping inductively sequential rewrite system. This transformation is sound...
— In Java, method implementations are chosen at runtime by late-binding with respect to the runtime class of just the receiver argument. However, in order to simplify many progra...
Abstract. We propose a new type discipline for the -calculus in which secure information flow is guaranteed by static type checking. Secrecy levels are assigned to channels and are...