A goal of computing and networking systems is to limit administrative requirements for users and operators. A technical systems should be able to configure itself as much as possi...
This paper presents a new model of agency, called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This draws from the classic BDI model and proposes a hierarchical agent architecture wi...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
: UML statecharts are used for describing dynamic aspects of system behavior. The work presented here extends a general Petri net-based methodology to support formal modeling of UM...
Traditional approaches to security evaluation have been based on penetration testing of real systems, or analysis of formal models of such systems. The former suffer from the prob...
Abstract. E-government services usually process large amounts of confidential data. Therefore, security requirements for the communication between components have to be adhered in...