In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
We present a model and protocol for anonymous credentials. Rather than using deterrents to ensure non-transferability, our model uses secure hardware with biometric authentication...
Sensor networks are deployed to monitor the surroundings and keep the end-user informed about the events witnessed. Different types of events have different levels of importance f...
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
Endowing agents with “social rationality” [10, 12, 11] can aid overall efficiency in tasks where cooperation is beneficial to system level performance. However it is difficult...