A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...
Abstract. One approach to secure mobile agent execution is restricting the agent route to trusted environments. A necessary condition for this approach to be practical is that the ...
This paper describes automatic protocol generation (APG for short), a novel mechanism to generate security protocols automatically. With APG, the protocol designer inputs the spec...
A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...
The biggest obstacle in the formal verification of large designs is their very large state spaces, which cannot be handled even by techniques such as implicit state space travers...