Understanding the structure of knowledge communities, and particularly the organization of "epistemic communities", or groups of agents sharing common knowledge concerns...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...
We describe a class of problems motivated by numerous real-world applications where there is a collection of objects that have both a cost and a value, but where some of those obj...
David L. Roberts, Charles L. Isbell, Michael L. Li...
This paper offers several contributions for separation of duty (SoD) administration in role-based access control (RBAC) systems. We first introduce a new formal framework, based o...
Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Alberto ...
If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when nego...
Claudio Bartolini, Chris Preist, Nicholas R. Jenni...