Selected Recent Papers:

• A Decentralized Monitoring Mechanism for Distributed Applications
  Constantin Serban, Wenxuan Zhang, and Naftaly Minsky
  Submitted for publication
  April 2008.
  PDF
  

• Decentralized Regulation of Distributed Systems: Beyond Access Control
  Naftaly Minsky
  Submitted for publication
  December 2007.
  PDF
  

• The Concept of Decentralized and Secure Electronic Marketplace
  Constantin Serban, Yingying Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, and Naftaly Minsky
  The Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR)
  To be published in 2008.
  PDF
  

• Generalized Access Control of Synchronous Communication
  Constantin Serban, and Naftaly Minsky
  Proc. of the International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia
  November 2006.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• Flexible Regulation of Distributed Coalitions
  Xuhui Ao and Naftaly Minsky
  In Proc. of the 8th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
  Gjøvik Norway, October 2003.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript ,
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript ,
  

• 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
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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
  PostScript , PDF
  

• Providing Multiple Views for Objects
  Naftaly Minsky and Partha pratim Pal
  Software Practice and Experience June, 2000 (Vol 30, Issue 7, pages: 803-823).
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript, PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• Unified Support for Heterogeneous Security Policies in Distributed Systems.
  Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  In 7th USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998,San Antonio, Texas.
  PostScript , PDF
  

• 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;
  Abstract ; PostScript, PDF
  

• 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;
  Abstract; PostScript , PDF
  

• 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)