Some natural epistemic properties which may arise in applications can only be expressed in standard epistemic logic by formulae which are exponentially long in the number of agent...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Traditional techniques for building dependable, highperformance distributed systems are too expensive for most non-critical systems, often causing dependability to be sidelined as...
Vikram S. Adve, Adnan Agbaria, Matti A. Hiltunen, ...
Abstract— It has been claimed that multicast state cannot be aggregated. In this paper, we will debunk this myth and present a simple technique that can be used to aggregate mult...
We present a formal verification methodology that we have used on a computer system design project. The methodology integrates a temporal logic model checker with a conventional pr...