Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Mobile agent technology is an emerging technology that allows easier design, implementation, and maintenance of distributed systems. Mobility enables agents to reduce network load,...
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...
The SPIN model checker and its specification language Promela have been used extensively in industry and academia to check logical properties of distributed algorithms and protoc...