We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
Despite a growing awareness of security issues in networked computing systems, most development processes used today still do not take security aspects into account. To address th...
The quest for designing secure and trusted software has led to refined Software Engineering methodologies that rely on tools to support the design process. Automated reasoning mech...
Volha Bryl, Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, Nicol...
—Caches ideally should have low miss rates and short access times, and should be power efficient at the same time. Such design goals are often contradictory in practice. Recent f...
Firewalls provide very good network security features. However, classical perimeter firewall deployments suffer from limitations due to complex network topologies and the inabilit...