Abstract. Information assurance applications built according to the MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Security) architecture often contain information flow policies that are con...
Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
We present a simple and uniform communication framework for an agent-based market infrastructure, the goal of which is to enable automation of consumer goods markets distributed ov...
- Many small businesses require distributed information systems but do not have the resources to develop, host or maintain them. An alternative approach may be to offer the softwar...
When an agent enters in an e-Market for the first time, it has no historical information that can be used to determine the strength of business relationship with participant agen...