This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
We consider a problem which was stated in a request for comments made by NIST in the FIPS97 document. The question is the following: Can we have a digital signature public key infr...
Niklaus Wirth has received much deserved fame for the creation of Pascal, but in many ways, he subsequently became a victim of Pascal's success. In an age of rising specializ...
One of the major premises of P2P systems is to enable fully decentralized collaborative functionalities for supporting work teams and P2P communities. Within collaborative systems,...
We are developing a system for collaborative research and development for a distributed group of researchers at different institutions around the world. In a new paradigm for coll...