Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters t...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
The information security community has long debated the exact definition of the term `security'. Even if we focus on the more modest notion of confidentiality the precise def...
The ubiquity of the Internet connection to desktops has been both boon to business as well as cause for concern for the security of digital assets that may be unknowingly exposed....
This paper describes a new public-key cryptosystem based on the hardness of computing higher residues modulo a composite RSA integer. We introduce two versions of our scheme, one d...