Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...
Multi-valued Kripke structures are Kripke structures in which the atomic propositions and the transitions are not Boolean and can take values from some set. In particular, latticed...
When an agent enters in an e-Market for the first time, it has no historical information that can be used to determine the strength of business relationship with participant agen...
We introduce a non-admissible heuristic for planning with action costs, called the set-additive heuristic, that combines the benefits of the additive heuristic used in the HSP pla...
Several credential systems have been proposed in which users can authenticate to services anonymously. Since anonymity can give users the license to misbehave, some variants allow...
Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, Sean W. ...