—Open multiagent systems consist of autonomous agents that are built by different vendors. In principle, open multiagent systems cannot provide any guarantees about the behaviors...
Commitment-based interaction protocols are a flexible way of representing the interaction of a set of agents, that are well-known and widely accepted by the research community. Nor...
The application of the principles of quantum mechanics to cryptography has led to a respectable new dimension in confidential communication. As a result of these developments, it i...
Abstract. Transactional memory systems trade ease of programming with runtime performance losses in handling transactions. This paper focuses on starvation effects that show up in ...