The design of software is often depicted by graphs that show components and their relationships. For example, a structure chart shows the calling relationships among components. O...
Abstract—Current techniques towards information security have limited capabilities to detect and counter attacks that involve different kinds of masquerade and spread of misinfor...
Co-ordination is seen as a fundamental aspect of organisational activity where computers can help. This is motivated by the need to reconcile the conflicts that arise from the div...
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
a growing need to study abstract problems in distributed multi-agent systems in a systematic way, as well as to provide a qualitative mathematical framework in which to compare po...