Multi-agent systems are now being considered a promising architectural approach for building Internet-based applications. One of the most critical and important aspects of softwar...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract. We propose and realize a definition of security for passwordbased key exchange within the framework of universally composable (UC) security, thus providing security guar...
Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, Jonathan Katz, Yehuda Li...
Abstract. Accurately modeling and predicting performance for largescale applications becomes increasingly difficult as system complexity scales dramatically. Analytic predictive mo...
Engin Ipek, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz, ...
One of the key problems with virtual organizations in the context of the (Semantic) Grid is we don’t know how to describe the components used in virtual organizations because the...