: 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...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that integrates three aspects of agency: planning, for proactive behaviour, negotiation, for social behaviour and resource achievement, an...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Torroni, Neophytos Demetri...
Abstract—Developing autonomous systems that patrol environments for detecting intruders is a topic of increasing relevance in security applications. An important aspect of these ...
Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
Advanced manufacturing control still remains an important topic in current research. Especially aspects of dynamics and of failures in the production process are insufficiently ta...