Abstract. In a software watermarking environment, several graph theoretic watermark methods encode the watermark values as graph structures and embed them in application programs. ...
Abstract. Networked multi-agent systems are comprised of many autonomous yet interdependent agents situated in a virtual social network. Two examples of such systems are supply cha...
module is a programming abstraction that simultaneously generalizes -abstractions, records, and mutually recursive definitions. Although various mixin module type systems have bee...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...