Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
We propose a process calculus for mobile ad hoc networks which embodies a behaviour-based multilevel decentralised trust model. Our trust model supports both direct trust, by monit...
Simulation and model checking are commonly used to compare the behaviour of a computer-based system with its requirements specification. However, when upgrading an operational le...
We present a systematic way to generate (1) languages of (generalised) regular expressions, and (2) sound and complete axiomatizations thereof, for a wide variety of quantitative ...
Alexandra Silva, Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsa...