Abstract. Electronic markets, dispute resolution and negotiation protocols are three types of application domain that can be viewed as open agent systems. Members of such systems a...
In certain critical cases the data flow between business departments in banking organizations has to respect security policies known as Chinese Wall or Bell–La Padula. We show t...
Christoph Brandt, Jens Otten, Christoph Kreitz, Wo...
Abstract. We investigate the set theoretical strength of some properties of normality, including Urysohn’s Lemma, Tietze-Urysohn Extension Theorem, normality of disjoint unions o...
Paul E. Howard, Kyriakos Keremedis, Herman Rubin, ...
Use cases are a popular method for capturing and structuring software requirements. The informality of use cases is both a blessing and a curse. It enables easy application and lea...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...