Muhiagent systems (MAS) can "go down" for a large number of reasons, ranging from system malfunctions and power failures to malicious attacks. The placement of agents on...
Abstract. Event-B provides us with a powerful framework for correctby-construction system development. However, while developing dependable systems we should not only guarantee the...
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method for assessing cause-consequence relations between component faults and hazards that may occur during the lifetime of a system. ...
Abstract. Using a probabilistic polynomial-time process calculus designed for specifying security properties as observational equivalences, we develop a form of bisimulation that j...
Ajith Ramanathan, John C. Mitchell, Andre Scedrov,...
Computing least common subsumers in description logics is an important reasoning service useful for a number of applications. As shown in the literature, it can, for instance, be u...