This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Abstract. We present new related-key attacks on the block ciphers 3WAY, Biham-DES, CAST, DES-X, NewDES, RC2, and TEA. Differential related-key attacks allow both keys and plaintex...
A number of enterprises are turning towards the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach for their systems due to the number of benefits it offers. A key enabling technology ...
Paul J. Vandal, Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha S. Go...
Multiprocessor architectures that continuously execute atomic blocks (or chunks) of instructions can improve performance and software productivity. However, all of the prior propo...