Policy conformance is a security property gaining importance due to commercial interest like Digital Rights Management. It is well known that static analysis can be used to valida...
An agent communication protocol specifies the “rules of encounter” governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as negoti...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
Agents in an open system interact with each other based on (typically, published) protocols. An agent may, however, deviate from the protocol because of its internal policies. Such...
Boolean programs with recursion are convenient abstractions of sequential imperative programs, and can be represented as recursive state machines (RSMs) or pushdown automata. Motiv...
Testing compositions of web services is complex, due to their distributed nature and asynchronous behaviour. However, research in this field is scarce. We propose a new testing me...