1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
—There are increasing capabilities and demands for the remote monitoring of homes and their occupants. There are a variety of options for the architecture of such monitoring syst...
Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
Managers of systems of shared resources typically have many separate goals. Examples are efficient utilization of the resources among its users and ensuring no user’s satisfacti...
Integrity constraints are valuable tools for enforcing consistency of data in a database. Global integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple d...