Abstract. Commitments are a powerful abstraction for representing the interactions between agents. Commitments capture the content of the interactions declaratively and allow agent...
In this paper a novel electronic payment protocol suitable for “peer-to-peer” (P2P) networks is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and...
The CASA architecture describes a platform for the provisioning of services by agents by supporting three levels of agent design. At the base level is a framework to build an agen...
Clinical research approval processes are complex since they involve human subject welfare as well as regulatory and ethical concerns. Typically, clinical research institutions hav...
Huey Cheung, Yang Fann, Shaohua Alex Wang, Barg Up...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of ap...
Steven Willmott, Josep M. Pujol, Ulises Cort&eacut...