It is essential for security to be able to isolate mistrusting programs from one another, and to protect the host platform from programs. Isolation is difficult in object-oriented...
A UML model of a software system can be represented by a sequence of model transformations, starting from an empty model. To effectively support the design of complex systems, tra...
Provenance describes how an object came to be in its present state. Intelligence dossiers, medical records and corporate financial reports capture provenance information. Many of ...
This article presents the results of experiments performed with agents based on an operalization of an information-theoretic model for trust. Experiments have been performed with t...
We sketch how to express typical features of agent communication protocols in a simple temporal logic and show that conformance verification at runtime reduces to a generalised f...