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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 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 16 days 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 1 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 4 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
15 years 11 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