In this paper we are interested in argument based reasoning for access control, for example in the context of agents negotiating access to resources or web services in virtual orga...
Guido Boella, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van d...
PAGODA (Policy And GOal Based Distributed Autonomy) is a modular architecture for specifying and prototyping autonomous systems. A PAGODA node (agent) interacts with its environme...
Service-Oriented Computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different providers. In several cases a service needs sensitive in...
Abstract Subtyping relations for object-oriented formalisms describe relationships between super- and subclasses which satisfy the substitutability requirement imposed on types and...
There are many underlying hardware architectures for execution of parallel applications. One of these is the Network of Workstations (NOW) which is an interesting solution for use...