Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
Abstract. Software engineering uses UML diagrams as a standard technique for specification and development of software. Various UML diagrams are used for specification of different...
There is currently considerable interest in developing multimedia digital libraries. However, it has become clear that existing architectures for management systems do not support...
Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Ha...
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
Abstract. While some recent frameworks on cognitive agents addressed the combination of mental attitudes with deontic concepts, they commonly ignore the representation of time. An ...