— In this work, an hybrid, self-configurable, multilayered and evolutionary subsumption architecture for cognitive agents is developed. Each layer of the multilayered architectur...
This paper introduces process spaces, a unified theory of interacting systems. The trait, abstract executions, leads to a simple and general set formalism. For concurrent systems ...
The need for negotiation in multi-agent systems stems from the requirement for agents to solve the problems posed by their interdependence upon one another. Negotiation provides a...
Simon Parsons, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings
We study formal security properties of a state-of-the-art protocol for secure file sharing on untrusted storage, in the automatic protocol verifier ProVerif. As far as we know, ...
Trust is a crucial basis for interactions among parties in large, open systems. Yet, the scale and dynamism of such systems make it infeasible for each party to have a direct basi...