In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
In this paper, we describe a secure group communication protocol for a fault-tolerant synchronous ring. Our protocol, named Secure Synchronous Ring Protocol (SSRP), integrates a se...
The work we present here is mainly concerned with interagent communication, MAS communication protocols and, in particular, software tools and environments to define, experiment a...
Next generation communication systems must support diverse applications operating over high-performance local, metropolitan, and wide area networks. This paper describes a framewo...
Douglas C. Schmidt, Burkhard Stiller, Tatsuya Suda...
We exhibit an explicit function f : {0,1}n {0,1} that can be computed by a nondeterministic number-on-forehead protocol communicating O(logn) bits, but that requires n(1) bits of...