We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
Unique Fixpoint Induction, UFI, is a chief inference rule to prove the equivalence of recursive processes in CCS [7]. It plays a major role in the equational approach to verificati...
Adapting to the network is the key to achieving high performance for communication-intensive applications, including scientific computing, data intensive computing, and multicast...