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AAAI
1996
13 years 6 months ago
An Optimal Contracting Strategy in a Digital Library
Agents can benefit from contracting some of their tasks that cannot be performedby themselves or that can be performed moreefficiently by other agents. Developing an agent's ...
Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee
PODC
1994
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Using Belief to Reason about Cache Coherence
The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Reasoning about agent execution strategies
We present a logic for reasoning about properties of agent programs under different agent execution strategies. Using the agent programming language SimpleAPL as an example, we sh...
Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan, Mehdi Dastani, John...
CSFW
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reasoning about Concurrency for Security Tunnels
There has been excellent progress on languages for rigorously describing key exchange protocols and techniques for proving that the network security tunnels they establish preserv...
Alwyn Goodloe, Carl A. Gunter
CSFW
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Hyperproperties
Properties, which have long been used for reasoning about systems, are sets of traces. Hyperproperties, introduced here, are sets of properties. Hyperproperties can express securi...
Michael R. Clarkson, Fred B. Schneider