Abstract. We look at some sources of insecurity and difficulty in reasoning about partially ordered runs of distributed ASMs, and propose some techniques to facilitate such reasoni...
Integrity constraint belief merging aims at producing from several knowledge bases, that may be mutually inconsistent, a synthetic knowledge base satisfying a given integrity const...
Business-to-business e-contracting has gained attention in recent years as a way to improve traditional paper contracting. However, a complete framework specifying the aspects of ...
Abstract. Micropayments are likely to continue disappointing their advocates. They are an interesting technology. However, there are many non-technological reasons why they will ta...
Abstract. For the improvement of software quality and productivity, organizations need to systematically build up and reuse software engineering know-how, promoting organizational ...