Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining predictable interactions between groups of agents in open environments when individual agents do not expose their bdi logic. ...
Nardine Osman, David Robertson, Christopher Walton
Simulatability constitutes the cryptographic notion of a secure refinement and has asserted its position as one of the fundamental concepts of modern cryptography. Although simula...
The security policy of an information system may include a wide range of different requirements. The literature has primarily focused on access and information flow control require...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...