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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Verifying the Interplay of Authorization Policies and Workflow in Service-Oriented Architectures
Abstract--A widespread design approach in distributed applications based on the service-oriented paradigm, such as web-services, consists of clearly separating the enforcement of a...
Michele Barletta, Silvio Ranise, Luca Viganò...
IJCAI
1989
15 years 3 months ago
Stochastic Analysis of Qualitative Dynamics
We extend qualitative reasoning with estimations of the relative likelihoods of the pos sible qualitative behaviors . We estimate the likelihoods by viewing the dynamics o f a sys...
Jon Doyle, Elisha Sacks
ARGMAS
2008
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Co-ordination and Co-operation in Agent Systems: Social Laws and Argumentation
The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon
OTM
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Towards Ontology-Guided Design of Learning Information Systems
Courseware increasingly consists of generic information and communication tools. These offer a plethora of functionalities, but their usefulness to a particular learning community ...
Aldo de Moor
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 2 months ago
A Model and a Design Approach to Building QoS Adaptive Systems
The paper introduces a system model called the probabilistic asynchronous model which characterises the context in which many practical and the Internet-based applications are bui...
Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Santosh K. Shrivastava