Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems. Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to their...
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
Software development teams exchange source code in shared repositories. These repositories are kept consistent by having developers follow a commit policy, such as "Program e...
Jan Wloka, Barbara G. Ryder, Frank Tip, Xiaoxia Re...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...
Constructions of cryptographic primitives based on general assumptions (e.g., one-way functions) tend to be less efficient than constructions based on specific (e.g., number-theor...