The development of libre (free/open source) software is usually performed by geographically distributed teams. Participation in most cases is voluntary, sometimes sporadic, and of...
This paper details a true and striking paradigm shift: the use of E-Prime for (at least) user-centered security, organizational/enterprise security policies and informal security ...
d on Dung’s [4] abstract argumentation system • arguments: trees of chained defeasible inferences • aim: determine the status of a query given a belief base • incorporation...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
In recent years, publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems based on XML document filtering have received much attention. In a typical pubsub system, subscribed users specify their inte...