Nominal calculi have been shown very effective to formally model a variety of computational phenomena. The models of nominal calculi have often infinite states, thus making model ...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
The need to securely share information on an ad-hoc basis between collaborating entities is increasingly becoming important. We propose a coalition based access control model (CBAC...
There is a critical need for approaches to support software testing. Our research exploits the information described at Architectural Patterns to drive the definition of tests. As...
This paper addresses the issue of social recommendation based on collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms. Social recommendation emphasizes utilizing various attributes informatio...