Current implementations of Java make security decisions by searching the runtime call stack. These systems have attractive security properties, but they have been criticized as be...
Object-oriented database management systems are often motivated by their support for new emerging application areas such as computer-aided design and analysis systems. The object-o...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
Decomposing complex software systems into conceptually independent subsystems is a significant software engineering activity which received considerable research attention. Most o...
Abstract. In the past, some information technologies (IT) have quickly been adopted by the engineering practice while the implementation of others has been slower. In the paper, th...