This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users t...
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind T...
Cyber attacks against networked computers have become relentless in recent years. The most common attack method is to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities such as buffer ove...
Jun Xu, Peng Ning, Chongkyung Kil, Yan Zhai, Chris...
Given concentrations of metabolites over a sequence of time steps, the metabolic pathway prediction problem seeks a set of reactions and rate constants for them that could yield t...
— Access control in computational grids is typically provided by a combination of identity certificates and local accounts. This approach does not scale as the number of users a...
Tatyana Ryutov, Li Zhou, B. Clifford Neuman, Noria...