The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
A multi-party contract signing protocol allows a set of participants to exchange messages with each other with a view to arriving in a state in which each of them has a pre-agreed...
Abstract. Modern process-aware information systems store detailed information about processes as they are being executed. This kind of information can be used for very different p...
XML database systems emerge as a result of the acceptance of the XML data model. Recent works have followed the promising approach of building XML database management systems on un...