: Directories provide a general mechanism for describing resources and enabling information sharing within and across organizations. Directories must resolve differing structures a...
Voting is a critical component of any democratic process; and electronic voting systems should be developed following best practices for critical system development. E-voting has i...
Abstract--Previous simulations have shown substantial performance gains can be achieved by using hybrid cellular and wireless LAN (WLAN) approaches [1]. In a hybrid system, a proxy...
— Overlay-based multicast has been proposed as a key alternative for large-scale group communication. There is ample motivation for such an approach, as it delivers the scalabili...
Argumentation allows agents to exchange additional information to argue about their beliefs and other mental attitudes during the negotiation process. Utterances and subsequent obs...