Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a u...
Abstract. Access control within a ubiquitous networking environment is a critical issue. Traditional access control methods have mainly relied on the authentication of registered u...
Due to the growth of unresponsive UDP traffic in the Internet, it becomes increasingly important for ISPs to amply shape the traffic that leaves their network. Ideally, flows shou...
One way for agents to reach a joint decision is to vote over the alternatives. In open, anonymous settings such as the Internet, an agent can vote more than once without being det...
Mechanisms such as Java Web Start enable on-thefly downloading and execution of applications installed on remote servers, without the need for having them installed on the local ...
Thierry Bodhuin, Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Troi...