We describe a novel scalable group membership algorithm designed for wide area networks WANs. Our membership service does not evolve from existing LAN-oriented membership servic...
Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Da...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...
We propose a type and effect system for authentication protocols built upon a tagging scheme that formalizes the intended semantics of ciphertexts. The main result is that the val...
In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer approach to derive and obtain additional context data from lowlevel context data that may be spread over multiple domains in pervasive com...
A formal two-phase model of democratic policy deliberation is presented, in which in the first phase sufficient and necessary criteria for proposals to be accepted are determine...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Wietske V...