One of the major concerns in the processes which involve human analysts is the existence of uncertainty/inconsistency. In this paper, we propose a model based on belief theory tha...
Fault-tolerant (FT) distributed protocols (such as group membership, consensus, etc.) represent fundamental building blocks for many practical systems, e.g., the Google File System...
Most real world engineering design optimisation approaches reported in the literature aim to find the best set of solutions using computationally expensive quantitative (QT ) mode...
Abstract. We investigate a security framework for collaborative applications that relies on the role-based access control (RBAC) model. In our framework, roles are pre-defined and...
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko...
The combination of peer-to-peer networking and agentbased computing seems to be a perfect match. Agents are cooperative and communication oriented, while peerto-peer networks typi...
Benno J. Overeinder, Etienne Posthumus, Frances M....