In this paper we combine existing work in the area of social laws with a framework for reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent systems. The unifying framework in which this is do...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Mark Roberts, Michael Wooldrid...
Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users t...
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind T...
Model checking has proven to be an effective technology for verification and debugging in hardware and more recently in software domains. We believe that recent trends in both th...
Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Matthew Hoosier, ...
Policy enforcement is an integral part of many applications. Policies are often used to control access to sensitive information. Current policy specification languages give users ...
Microsoft has prosecuted a vigorous civil enforcement campaign against spammers and phishers. When initial investigation into a spam or phishing case fails to reveal the identity ...