This last decade, propositional reasoning and search has been one of the hottest topics of research in the A.I. community, as the Boolean framework has been recognized as a powerf...
In Service-Oriented MAS middle-agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionalit...
Hardware failures in autonomous and distributed software systems create the need for self-healing activities. This work addresses the problem of redeploying software components af...
In the present paper, we provide a formalised version of a merged argumentative and story-based approach towards the analysis of evidence. As an application, we are able to show h...
The reliable authentication of user attributes is an important prerequisite for the security of web based applications. Digital certificates are widely used for that purpose. How...