A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...
Agent-based modeling is a powerful tool for systems modeling. Instantiating each domain entity with an agent permits us to capture many aspects of system dynamics and interactions...
Encouraging voters to truthfully reveal their preferences in an election has long been an important issue. Previous studies have shown that some voting protocols are hard to manip...
Traditional security policies largely focus on access control requirements, which specify who can access what under what circumstances. Besides access control requirements, the av...
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...