Finding patterns of social interaction within a population has wide-ranging applications including: disease modeling, cultural and information transmission, and behavioral ecology...
In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agen...
This paper proposes a PBNM (Policy Based Network Management) framework for automating the process of generating and distributing DiffServ configuration to network devices. The fram...
We develop a framework for specifying and reasoning about policies for sharing resources in coalitions, focussing here on a particular, common type of contract in which coalition ...
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi, Marek J. Sergot, Anna Ci...
In this paper we detail the use of e-mail social network analysis for the detection of security policy violations on computer systems. We begin by formalizing basic policies that ...
Adam J. O'Donnell, Walter C. Mankowski, Jeff Abrah...