Abstract. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSP) is a general framework for multi-agent coordination and conflict resolution. In most DCSP algorithms, inter-agent com...
Electronic voting promises the possibility of a convenient, efficient and secure facility for recording and tallying votes in an election. Recently highlighted inadequacies of imp...
As a value flows across the boundary between interoperating languages, it must be checked and converted to fit the types and representations of the target language. For simple f...
Kathryn E. Gray, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Fla...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problems appearing in componentbased development of safety-critical systems. We aim at efficient reasoning about safety at system level while add...
Abstract. We present a new cryptographic auction protocol that prevents extraction of bid information despite any collusion of participants. This requirement is stronger than commo...