In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies. Th...
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib...
We propose a programming language, called PCML5, for building distributed applications with distributed access control. Target applications include web-based systems in which prog...
— Nowadays power distribution systems typically operate with nonsinusoidal voltages and currents. Harmonic currents from nonlinear loads propagate through the system and cause ha...
Joy Mazumdar, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G....
— In this paper, a novel design approach for the development of robot hands is presented. This approach, that can be considered alternative to the “classical” one, takes into...
Luigi Biagiotti, Fabrizio Lotti, Claudio Melchiorr...
Abstract. We consider the question of how to establish and enforce communal policies for peer-to-peer (P2P) communities. Generally, members of each P2P community must conform to an...
Mihail F. Ionescu, Naftaly H. Minsky, Thu D. Nguye...