The synchronous programming paradigm simplifies the specification and verification of reactive systems. However, synchronous programs must be often implemented on architectures...
Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature mak...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
In this paper, we propose a new model for securing agent-based systems in which agents are equipped with reasoning capabilities allowing them to interact with each other. The agen...
Jamal Bentahar, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Bernard Moul...