New designs for petabyte-scale storage systems are now capable of transferring hundreds of gigabytes of data per second, but lack strong security. We propose a scalable and effici...
Abstract The expansion of inter-organizational scenarios based on different authorization schemes involves the development of integration solutions allowing different authorizatio...
An English auction is the most familiar type of auctions. Generally, an electronic auction has mainly two entities, the registration manager(RM) who treats the registration of bidd...
Agents are intended to interact in open systems where the knowledge about others (reputation) is incomplete and uncertain. Also, this knowledge about other agents is subjective si...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...