Hardware manufacturers are increasingly outsourcing their IC fabrication work overseas due to much lower costs. This poses a significant security risk for ICs used for critical m...
OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) is an important business system sector in various traditional and emerging online services. Due to the increasing number of users, OLTP syste...
maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...
Abstract. In this paper we show how to apply a tableau-based software composition technique to automatically generate the mediator's service logic. This uses an LTL planning (...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...