: The use of agent paradigm in today’s applications is hampered by the security concerns of agents and hosts alike. The agents require the presence of a secure and trusted execut...
We discuss current approaches to the development of natural language dialogue systems, and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine intera...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Today most Internet services are pre-assigned to servers statically, hence preventing us from doing real-time sharing of a pool of servers across as group of services with dynamic...