The intent of peer data management systems (PDMS) is to share as much data as possible. However, in many applications leveraging sensitive data, users demand adequate mechanisms to...
Privacy and security has been considered as the top criterion for the acceptance of e-service adoption. In this paper, we proposed a privacy aware identity protection design that i...
Distributed multi-agent systems require naming services to locate and communicate with remote agents. In this paper we focus on the design and implementation of the “White Pages...
We identify three design principles for reflection and metaprogramming facilities in object oriented programming languages. Encapsulation: meta-level facilities must encapsulate t...
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...