In this paper we address the question of assigning social norms to agents: should we attempt to ascribe social norms to agents that will act in complex dynamic environments, or is...
In this age of complex business landscapes, many enterprises turn to SOA for aligning their IT portfolio with their business. Because of the enormous business risk involved with r...
We study efficient algorithms for soft-input soft-output (SISO) encoding of convolutional codes. While the BCJR algorithm has been suggested for SISO encoding, we show that a for...
: Development of capital intensive systems, such as offshore oil platforms or other industrial infrastructure, generally requires a significant amount of capital investment under v...
Jijun Lin, Olivier de Weck, Richard de Neufville, ...
We explore the challenges and research directions in building models, protocols and architectures to support security in pervasive computing environments. We argue that to be succ...