This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems. Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to their...
In open settings, the participants are autonomous and there is no central authority to ensure the felicity of their interactions. When agents interact in such settings, each relie...
Building a system at the architectural level can be thought of as decomposition into components followed by a series of exercises in matching. Components must be composed with eac...
Rick Kazman, Paul C. Clements, Leonard J. Bass, Gr...
Since Findler and Felleisen [2002] introduced higher-order contracts, many variants have been proposed. Broadly, these fall into two groups: some follow Findler and Felleisen in u...
Benjamin C. Pierce, Michael Greenberg, Stephanie W...