This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
This paper presents a technique for recovering the high level design of legacy software systems according to user defined architectural plans. Architectural plans are represented...
Certified code is a general mechanism for enforcing security properties. In this paradigm, untrusted mobile code carries annotations that allow a host to verify its trustworthine...
Safety critical systems, such as aviation systems controlled by software, often have hard real-time requirements. Producing the correct resultat the right time is thefundamental g...
Abstract. The ambient calculus is a calculus of computation that allows active processes (mobile ambients) to move between sites. A firewall is said to be protective whenever it d...