In distributed environments, statements from a number of principals, besides the central trusted party, may influence the derivations of authorization decisions. However, existin...
Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...
- Thanks to the spread of mobile technologies, we can access to the network anytime and from anywhere. In the near future, we will enable to realize the ubiquitous computing enviro...
Memory models define an interface between programs written in some language and their implementation, determining which behaviour the memory (and thus a program) is allowed to hav...
By using an example from a robot navigating domain, we argue that to specify declaratively the behavior of an agent, we need to have a formal and explicit notion of \quality plans...