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NSPW
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Meta Objects for Access Control: a Formal Model for Role-Based Principals
Object-based programming is becoming more and more popular and is currently conquering the world of distributed programming models. In object-based systems access control is often...
Thomas Riechmann, Franz J. Hauck
ATAL
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Intention Reconsideration Reconsidered
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the issue of designing agents that successfully balance the amount of time spent in reconsidering their intentions against the amount of time s...
Michael Wooldridge, Simon Parsons
ECOOPW
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Formalising Composition Oriented Programming
We present a snapshot of work in progress to define a formal model of the composition technology which underpins Subject-oriented and Aspectoriented programming.
Mark Skipper, Sophia Drossopoulou
DSVIS
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Functionally Modeled User Interfaces
Modern industrial-strength user interface toolkits are usually described informally, in terms of implementation artifacts such as objects and imperative state. While the practical...
Antony Courtney
COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Automating Checking of Models Built Using a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language
RDT is a graphical formal modelling language in which the modeller works by constructing diagrams of the processes in their model which they then join together to form complete sy...
Robert John Walters
KR
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Evidence and Belief
We discuss the representation of knowledge and of belief from the viewpoint of decision theory. While the Bayesian approach enjoys general-purpose applicability and axiomatic foun...
Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler
ISCIS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Semi-formal and Formal Models Applied to Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Abstract. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) are adopted to process different goods in different mix ratios allowing firms to react quickly and efficiently to changes in produ...
Andrea Matta, Carlo A. Furia, Matteo Rossi
EMSOFT
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A model-based approach to integrating security policies for embedded devices
Embedded devices like smart cards can now run multiple interacting applications. A particular challenge in this domain is to dynamically integrate diverse security policies. In th...
Michael McDougall, Rajeev Alur, Carl A. Gunter
ICCS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Dynamics of Computing Agent Systems
The paper presents the Multi Agent System (MAS) designed for the large scale parallel computations. The special kind of diffusionbased scheduling enables to decompose and allocate...
Maciej Smolka, Piotr Uhruski, Robert Schaefer, Mar...
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A model and architecture for pseudo-random generation with applications to /dev/random
We present a formal model and a simple architecture for robust pseudorandom generation that ensures resilience in the face of an observer with partial knowledge/control of the gen...
Boaz Barak, Shai Halevi