Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MRL) is a growing area of research. What makes it particularly challenging is that multiple learners render each other's environments non-stationary. In addition to adapting their behaviors to other learning agents, online learners must also provide assurances about their online performance in order to promote user trust of adaptive agent systems deployed in ...

In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing requirements. We call such an approach an evolutionary approach. As existing methodologies rely on refinement concepts they do not support an evolutionary development. In this paper, we present the basic concepts of a suit...

The Internet is evolving from best-effort service toward an integrated or differentiate service framework with Quality of Service (QoS) assurances that are required for new multimedia service applications. Given this increasing demand for high bandwidth Internet with QoS assurances in the coming years, IP/MPLS based control plane combined with wavelength-routed Dense Wavelength Division Multipl...

Given the uncertainties of online transactions, e-commerce encourages the creation of institutional structures for online exchange relationships. Building upon the notion of institutional trust, this research examines how institutional structures develop through governance mechanisms leading to technology trust derived from structural assurances for online dyadic relationships. Technology trust...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a simple and effective complementary label learning approach to address the noise problem for deep model. Different surrogate losses have been proposed learning, however, are often sophisticated designed, as required satisfy classifier consistency property. We an square loss under unbiased biased assumptions. also show theoretically that our method assurances ...

Since the inception of private food safety standards in late 1990s, producers, processors, retailers, and governments have been increasingly relying on them to provide assurances safety. This article first develops a conceptual framework for market through lens agri-food supply chain logistics, outlining how key players interact classifying these interactions into 15 categories. Second, we clas...

To provide some levels of dependency in software systems, self-adaptive systems have been proposed as a principled approach to engineering software systems to adapt systems to meet requirements even in the face of changes and uncertainty in the environment. But how can we show that changing a system at run time will make systems more dependable? In this keynote, I will outline a set of challeng...

We introduce mechanisms for secure keyword searches on a document server. We propose protocols with computational privacy, query correctness assurances and minimal or no leaks: the server either correctly executes client queries or (if it behaves maliciously) is immediately detected. The client is then provided with strong assurances proving the authenticity and completeness of server replies. ...