Developing computer systems that are both concurrent and evolving is challenging. To guarantee consistent access to resources by concurrent software components, some synchronizatio...
Building an effective Information Retrieval system requires various design choices, ranging from the weighting scheme to the type of morphological normalization. The combination ...
Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
Abstract. Communication between agents needs to be flexible enough to encompass together a variety of different aspects such as, conformance to society protocols, private tactics ...
A long-standing problem in information security is how to specify and enforce expressive security policies that control information flow while also permitting information release...