Abstract. Usually, MAS design and implementation involves a coordination model that structures agent interactions and an infrastructure in charge of enacting it. We propose the ter...
We introduce and study qualitative multiple outcomes games. These games are noncooperative games with qualitative utilities (i.e., values over an ordinal scale), strictly qualitat...
Access control (AC) technology has come a long way from its roots as the means for sharing resources between processes running on a single machine, to a mechanism for regulating t...
Abstract. They appeared in our life some years ago with the awakening of the PC and now the are everywhere : computers have become ubiquitous and, almost, irreplaceable. Classical ...
Websites serve content both through Web Services as well as through user-viewable webpages. While the consumers of web-services are typically ‘machines’, webpages are meant fo...