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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering is the one of the most recent contributions to the field of Software Engineering. It has several benefits compared to existing development approaches, in particular the ability to let agents represent high-level abstractions of active entities in a software system. This paper gives an overview of recent research and industrial applications of both general hig...

The lecture is in three parts. In the rst part we dene, primarily by example, the key terms. These are conventional procedures, escape procedures and continuations. The primitive notions of lambda^ and call/cc are presented. In the second part we develop examples of simple applications, specically a simple LISP-like BREAK and a CYCLE pro- cedure which loops indenitely, but makes available t...

Why is AI good for games? • Why are games good for AI? • AI techniques for games.

The current lack of competitiveness in agricultural markets is a direct reflection of a national obsession with the industrial paradigm of business organization. Specialization, standardization, and centralization characterize the industrial paradigm. Specialization, with each person or unit performing fewer functions, allows each function or step of a production process to be performed more ef...

This report presents an extended analysis of CERT Coordination Centerâ incidents data (from 1988 to 1995) and applies the results to simulate attacks and their impacts on network sites. The data were “sanitized” prior to the analysis to ensure complete anonymity. A model for the incidents process is discussed and extended. It consists of three parts: a stochastic process for the random occurren...

In this paper we develop a model to evaluate the tradeoffs between the cost of defense mechanisms for networked systems and the resulting expected survivability after a network attack. The model consists of three submodels. The first submodel simulates the occurrence of attacks or incidents. The second submodel simulates the impact of an attack on the system. This depends on the type of attack ...

LAT System Engineering

Society is increasingly dependent on large-scale, networked information systems of remarkable scope and complexity. This dependency magnifies the far-reaching consequences of system damage from attacks and intrusions. Yet no amount of security can guarantee that systems will not be penetrated. Incorporating survivability capabilities into an organization’s systems can mitigate the risks. Surviv...

Presentation to National Defense Industrial Association

As the business environment becomes increasingly global and companies routinely list on stock exchanges in many countries, the need for consistent worldwide reporting stan- dards intensifies. IFRS, formerly known as International Accounting Standards, clearly addresses this issue; its goal is to create comparable, reliable, and transparent financial state- ments that...