This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
Architectural considerations play a key role in the success of any software-based development project. Architecture evaluation is an early risk reduction method for identifying ri...
The GRIA project set out to make the Grid usable by industry. The GRIA middleware is based on Web Services, and designed to meet the needs of industry for security and business-to...
Mike Surridge, Steve Taylor, David De Roure, Ed Za...
It is advocated to use the ISO/IEC 15504 standard into new domains not related to Information Technology (IT), giving a powerful enterprise-wide assessment tool for quality manager...
We present in this paper an adaptive security model for Multi-agent systems. A security meta-model has been developed in which the traditional role concept has been extended. The ...
Liang Xiao 0002, Andrew Peet, Paul H. Lewis, Srina...