The paper describes experiences, ideas, and problems that were discovered while developing a digital rights management (DRM) extension to an XML browser. The supported rights desc...
Abstract--Norm-enforcement models applied in human societies may serve as an inspiration for the design of multi-agent systems. Models for norm-enforcement in multi-agent systems o...
Brigitte Burgemeestre, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan
Self-healing systems focus on how to reducing the complexity and cost of the management of dependability policies and mechanisms without human intervention. This position paper pr...
This paper proposes a software architecture and a development process for engineering dependable and controllable self-organising (SO) systems. Our approach addresses dependabilit...
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, John S. Fitzgerald, A...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components are built to be used as black boxes that cannot be modified. The specific context in which these COTS components are employed is...