Selected Recent Papers:

·       Enhancing the Dependability of Heterogeneous Distributed Systems by Governing their Message Flow
Naftaly Minsky
Rutgers Technical Report
October 2015 .
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·       A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks
Zhe Wang and Naftaly Minsky
EAI Transactions on Collaborative Computing
2015 (to be published).
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·       Establishing Global Policies over Decentralized Online-Social-Networks
Zhe Wang and Naftaly Minsky
Technical Report, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
March 2014.
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·       Bracing Heterogeneous Distributed Systems via Built-in Frameworks
Naftaly Minsky
arXiv
March 2014.
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·       Dependable Management of Untrusted Distributed Systems
Naftaly Minsky
arXiv
March 2014.
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·       An Approach to Modularization of Distributed Systems
Naftaly Minsky
arXiv
September 2013.
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·       Law Governed Peer-to-Peer Secondary Spectrum Marketplaces
Rishabh Dudheria, Wade Trappe and Naftaly Minsky
8th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM 2013)
July 2013.
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·       Decentralized Governance of Distributed Systems via Interaction Control
Naftaly Minsky
in Logic Programs, Norms and Action. (Essays in Honour of Marek J. Sergot) LNCS 7360

2012 (to be published)
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·       Coordination and Control in Mobile Ubiquitous Computing Applications Using Law Governed Interaction
Rishabh Dudheria, Wade Trappe and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of UBICOMM (Florance Italy)
October 2010.
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·       A Model for the Governance of Federated Health-Care Information Systems
Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the International Symposium on Policies
for Distributed Systems and Networks, Washington DC
July 2010.
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·       The Regularity Principle of Self-Management
Naftaly Minsky
SOAR Workshop on Self-Organizing Architectures, at the International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC 2010)
Invited Paper
June 2010
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·       Decentralized Governance of Networked Systems: from Access Control to Interaction Control
Naftaly Minsky
DCS and DIMACS Technical Report
April  2010.
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·       Reducing Spam via Trustworthy Self Regulation by Email Senders
Naftaly Minsky
DIMACS Technical Report,  presented at The MIT Spam Workshop
March 2010
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·       Regulating Orchestration in SOA-based Systems
Tin Lam and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations
April 2010.

·       A Decentralized Mechanism for Application Level Monitoring of Distributed Systems
Constantin Serban and Naftaly Minsky
CollaborateCom 2009: The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, Washington DC
November 2009.
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·       A Collaborative Framework for Enforcing Server Commitments, and for Regulating Server Interactive Behavior in SOA-based Systems
Tin Lam and Naftaly Minsky
CollaborateCom 2009: The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, Washington DC
November 2009.

·       Enforcement of Server Commitments and System Global Constraints in SOA-Based Systems
Tin Lam and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, Singapore
December 2009.

·       In Vivo Evolution of Policies that Govern a Distributed System
Constantin Serban and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the International Symposium on Policies
for Distributed Systems and Networks London, UK
July 2009.
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·       Developing Law-Governed Systems Using Aspects
Constantin Serban, Shmuel Tyszberowicz, Yishai A. Feldman and Naftaly Minsky
The Journal of Object Technology
December 2008.
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·       The Concept of Decentralized and Secure Electronic Marketplace
Constantin Serban, Yingying Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, and Naftaly Minsky
The Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR)
2008.
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·       Generalized Access Control of Synchronous Communication
Constantin Serban, and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia
November 2006.
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·       Establishing Global Properties of Multi-Agent Systems via Local Laws
Wenxuan Zhang, Constantin Serban, and Naftaly Minsky
in Environments for Multiagent Systems III; Danny Weyns, Editor, Springer, LNCS
July 2006.
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·       Regulated Delegation in Distributed Systems
Xuhui Ao and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the IEEE 7th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, London, Ontario, Canada
June 2006.
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·       Law Governed Interaction (LGI):
A Distributed Coordination and Control Mechanism
(An Introduction, and a Reference Manual)
Naftaly Minsky
Rutgers University Technical Report
October 2005. PDF

·       Law-Governed Multi-Agent Systems: From Anarchy to Order
Naftaly Minsky
Keynote Address
at the Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS)
May 2005. Powerpoint

·       A Scalable Mechanism for Communal Access Control
Naftaly Minsky
in Proc. of the Conference on New Challenges for Access Control NCAC2005, Ottawa, Canada
May 2005. Powerpoint

·       Towards Decentralized and Secure Electronic Marketplace
Yingying Chen, Constantin Serban, Bill Zhang, and Naftaly Minsky
in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on E-Commerce, Porto, Portugal
May 2005. PDF

·       Preventing Theft in the Open
Naftaly Minsky
in Proc. of the DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
April 2005. Powerpoint

·       Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Auctions
Marcus Fontoura, Mihail Ionesu and Naftaly Minsky
In the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR)
Vol. 5, No 1, Pages 7-24, January 2005.
online at: www.springerlink.com

·       On Manageability and Robustness of Open Multi-Agent Systems
Naftaly Minsky and Takahiro Murata
in Computer Security, Dependability, and Assurance,
Carlos Lucena and Alessandro Garcia and Alexander Romanovsky and Jaelson Castro and and Paulo Alencar editors;
LNCS, No. 2940, pages 189-206, Springer-Verlag,
2004. PDF

·       On the Role of Roles: from Role-Based to Role-Sensitive Access Control
Xuhui Ao and Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the 9th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Yorktown Hights, NY, USA,
June 2004.
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·       A Decentralized Treatment of a Highly Distributed Chinese-Wall Policy
Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of the IEEE 5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Yorktown Hights, NY, USA
June 2004.
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·       Enforcement of Communal Policies for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Mihail Ionescu, Naftaly Minsky and Thu Nguyen
Proc. of the Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, Pisa Italy
February 2004.
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·       Flexible Regulation of Distributed Coalitions
Xuhui Ao and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the 8th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
Gj_vik Norway, October 2003.
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·       On Conditions for Self-Healing in Distributed Software Systems
Naftaly Minsky
In the Proceedings of the International Autonomic Computing Workshop Seattle Washington (To be published by IEEE Computer Society) June 2003.
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·       Regularity-Based Trust in Cyberspace
Naftaly Minsky
In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Trust Management, Crete, Greece. (To be published in LNCS) May 2003.
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·       On Monitoring and Steering in large Scale Multi-Agent Systems
Takahiro Murata and Naftaly Minsky
In the Proceedings of the 2nd. International Workshop on Large Scale Multi Agent Systems, Portland Oregon, May 2003.
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·       On Shouting ``Fire!'': Regulating Decoupled Communication in Distributed Systems
Takahiro Murata and Naftaly Minsky
In the Proceedings of the International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; June 2003.
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·       Regulating Work in Digital Enterprises: a Flexible managerial Framework
Takahiro Murata and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) Conference, Irvine California, October 2002.
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·       A Hierarchical Policy Specification Language, and Enforcement Mechanism, for Governing Digital Enterprises
Xuhui Ao, Naftaly Minsky and Thu Nguyen
In Proc. of the IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Monterey California, June 2002.
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·       Law-Governed Peer-to-Peer Auctions
Marcus Fontoura, Mihail Ionesu and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the eleventh international world wide web conference (WWW2002)
Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2002.
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·       Establishing Accounting Principles as Invariants of Financial Systems
Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the Fourth International IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Conference on
INTEGRITY and INTERNAL CONTROL in INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Brussels, Belgium; November 15-16, 2001.
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·       Scalable Regulation of Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
In Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce
, Heidelberg, Germany , November 2001.
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·       Establishing Enterprise Communities
Constantin Serban, Xuhui Ao and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2001)
Seattle Washington, September 2001.
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·       Formal Treatment of Certificate Revocation Under Communal Access Control
Xuhui Ao, Naftaly Minsky, and Victoria Ungureanu
In Proc. of the 2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
Oakland California, May 2001.
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·       Safe Tuplespace-Based Coordination in Multi Agent Systems
Naftaly Minsky, Yaron Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
in the Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI), (Vol 15, No. 1, pages: 11-33) January 2001
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·       A Policy-Based Access Control Mechanism for Corporate Web
Victoria Ungureanu, Farokh Vesuna and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2000.
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·       Establishing Business Rules for Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
Victoria Ungureanu and Naftaly Minsky
In Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000), LNCS, No. 1914, pages 179-193, Springer-Verlag, October 2000, Toledo Spain
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·       Law-Governed Communities Over the Internet
Xuhui Ao, Naftaly Minsky, Thu Nguyen, Victoria Ungureanu
In Proc. of Coordination' 2000: Fourth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages,
LNCS, No. 1906, pages 133-147, Springer-Verlag, September 2000, Limassol Cyprus.
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·       Law-Governed Interaction: A Coordination & Control Mechanism for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.
Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), (Vol 9, No 3, pages: 273-305) July 2000
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·       Providing Multiple Views for Objects
Naftaly Minsky and Partha pratim Pal
Software Practice and Experience June, 2000 (Vol 30, Issue 7, pages: 803-823).
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·       Making Tuple Spaces Safe for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Naftaly Minsky, Yaron Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
in ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000) March 2000 Como, Italy
Full Paper
(Postscript)

·       Why Should Architectural Principles be Enforced?
Naftaly Minsky
in Computer Security, Dependability, and Assurance,
Paul Amman et al., editors; IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
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·       Software Managment via Law-Governed Regularities
Naftaly Minsky and Partha Pal
in The Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vol 19, pages 507--522
John Webster editor; Wiley, 1999.
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·       Regulating Agent Involvement in Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
Avi Gal, Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
in The 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Workshop on Electronic Commerce; June 1999.
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·       A Mechanism for Establishing Policies for Electronic Commerce.
Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
In the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). May 1998.
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·       Unified Support for Heterogeneous Security Policies in Distributed Systems.
Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
In 7th USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998,San Antonio, Texas.
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·       Regulated Coordination in Open Distributed Systems
Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
In Proc. of Coordination'97: Second International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, LNCS 1282, September 1997.
Full Paper
(Postscript,322K)

·       Law-Governed Regularities in Object Systems; Part 2: the Eiffel Case.
Naftaly Minsky and Partha Pal
In Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TOPAS) (John Wiley) 1997;
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·       Law-Governed Regularities in Object Systems; part 1: Principles.
Naftaly Minsky
Published in Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TOPAS) (John Wiley) Vol II, No. 4, 1996;
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·       Imposing The Law of Demeter and Its Variations
Naftaly Minsky and Partha Pal
the TOOLS Conference, Aug 1996, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Full Paper
(Postscript,306K)

·       Building Reconfiguration Primitives into the Law of a System
Naftaly Minsky, Victoria Ungureanu, Wenhui Wang and Junbiao Zhang;
the International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, May 6-8 1996 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Abstract
Full Paper
(Postscript,286K)

·       Towards Alias-Free Pointers.
Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of The 10th European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP96), Linz, Austria July 1996
Abstract
Full Paper
(Postscript,273K)

·       Law-Governed Linda as a Coordination Model.
Naftaly Minsky and Jerrold Leichter
in Object-Based Models and Languages for Concurrent Systems, LNCS, No. 924, pages 125-146, Springer-Verlag 1995 )
Abstract
Full Paper
(Postscript,278K)

·       Independent On-Line Monitoring of Evolving Systems.
Naftaly Minsky
Proc. of The 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, March 1996 (pages: 134-143
Abstract
Full Paper
(Postscript,239K)


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