We explore how fixed-point operators can be designed to interact and be composed to form autonomic control mechanisms. We depart from the idea that an operator is idempotent only ...
National enterprise architectures (NEA) promise to fill the gap between policy and implementation. NEAs are embedded within an institutional environment consisting of active playe...
Electricity restructuring is a complex, never-ending process that has engineering, economic, social, commercial, legal and policy dimensions and takes place within a broad societa...
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are a major concern for modern distributed applications. They exploit weakness in the software in order to make it unavailable to well-behaved user...
In this paper we propose a computational model for human-agent and agent-agent conversation. This model has two fundamental characteristics: (1) it takes into account the implicit ...