Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
This paper is concerned with argumentation-based dialogues between agents. Much work in this area has been based upon an influential taxonomy of dialogue types developed by Walto...
There is an increasing need for various web-service, e-commerce and e-business sites to provide personalized recommendations to on-line customers. This paper proposes a new type o...
In this paper we discuss some of the relations between cognition and emotion as exemplified by a particular type of agent architecture, the CogAff agent architecture. We outline a...
We introduce a typed variant of Safe Ambients, named Secure Safe Ambients (SSA), whose type system allows behavioral invariants of ambients to be expressed and verified. The most ...