In order to succeed, agents playing games must reason about the mechanics of the game, the strategies of other agents, other agents’ reasoning about their strategies, and the ra...
Current firewall configuration languages have no well founded semantics. Each firewall implements its own algorithm that parses specific proprietary languages. The main conseq...
While concurrency in embedded systems is most often supplied by real-time operating systems, this approach can be unpredictable and difficult to debug. Synchronous concurrency, i...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Fair allocation of payoffs among cooperating players who can form various coalitions of differing utilities is the classic game theoretic “coalition problem.” Shapley’s va...