Agent theories and agent programs are two very different styles of specification of agent behavior. The former are declarative in nature, while the latter have an imperative fl...
r of high-level languages lies in their abstraction over hardware and software complexity, leading to greater security, better reliability, and lower development costs. However, o...
Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widely used as device controllers for assembly lines, chemical processes, or power plants. Sequential Function Charts (SFC) form one of the...
Nanette Bauer, Ralf Huuck, Ben Lukoschus, Sebastia...
When packet filtering is used as a security mechanism, different routers may need to cooperate to enforce the desired security policy. It is difficult to ensure that they will d...
Abstract--Mobile Agents is a new paradigm for distributed computing where security is very essential to the acceptance of this paradigm in a large scale distributed environment. In...