In the field of multiagent systems (MAS), the computational models of trust and reputation have attracted increasing interest since electronic and open environments became a reali...
Abstract. With the emergence of mobile and ubiquitous computing environments, there is a requirement to enable collaborative applications between these environments. As many of the...
Steven Heeps, Joe Sventek, Naranker Dulay, Alberto...
This paper describes a new approach to programming autonomic systems. Autonomic functions are integrated into element objects at design time using a special language called JSpoon...
We propose a new cryptographic primitive called oblivious signaturebased envelope (OSBE). Informally, an OSBE scheme enables a sender to send an envelope (encrypted message) to a ...
Informally, a communication protocol is sender k - anonymous if it can guarantee that an adversary, trying to determine the sender of a particular message, can only narrow down it...