Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
The purpose of this paper is to provide some understanding on the key forces impacting on the successful evolvement of m-commerce in the US market from Mobile Network Operators’...
Bomb disposal manned missions are inherently safetycritical. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology potentially offers an opportunity to increase the safety of the operatives in...
John Kemp, Elena I. Gaura, James Brusey, C. Dougla...
— This paper presents new results on the formal design of distributed coordinating agents in a discrete-event framework. In this framework, agents are modeled to be individually ...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...