Establishing trust amongst agents is of central importance to the development of well-functioning multi-agent systems. For example, the anonymity of transactions on the Internet c...
This paper deals with the automatic dependability analysis of systems designed using UML. An automatic transformations is defined for the generation of models to capture systems d...
Abstract. Naive feature orientation runs into problems with large software systems, such as telephone switching systems. With naive feature orientation, a feature extends a base sy...
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that explicitly deals with correlated multi-dimensional contracts. Our starting point is to consider an...
Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nichol...
To ensure that a trust negotiation succeeds whenever possible, authorization policy compliance checkers must be able to find all minimal sets of their owners' credentials tha...