Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
Abstract. One of the reasons for attending to agent technology is the evergrowing complexity of information systems and the increasing difficulty to foresee and plan for all potent...
Abstract. There are a number of attacker models in the area of anonymous communication. Most of them are either very simplified or pretty abstract - therefore difficult to generali...
The shift from paper documents to their respective electronic formats is producing important advantages in the functioning of businesses and Public Administrations. However, this s...
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...