Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) offer communication over a shared wireless channel without any pre-existing infrastructure. Forming peer-to-peer security associations in MANETs i...
Johann van der Merwe, Dawoud S. Dawoud, Stephen Mc...
In today’s integrating information systems data fusion, i.e., the merging of multiple tuples about the same real-world object into a single tuple, is left to ETL tools and other ...
Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...
We present dcl-pc: a dynamic logic of delegation and cooperation. The logical foundation of dcl-pc is cl-pc, a logic for reasoning about cooperation in which the powers of agents ...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...