The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distribute...
Benedita Malheiro, Nicholas R. Jennings, Eugenio O...
In the DEZENT1 project we had established a distributed base model for negotiating electric power from widely distributed (renewable) power sources on multiple levels in successio...
Horst F. Wedde, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Christian Reht...
This paper¢ presents an authorization framework for supporting fine-grained access control policies enhanced with light-weight intrusion/misuse detectors and response capabiliti...
Distributed Role-Based Access Control (dRBAC) is a scalable, decentralized trust-management and accesscontrol mechanism for systems that span multiple administrative domains. dRBA...
Eric Freudenthal, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Edwa...
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...