Abstract. We present an abstract view of existential variables in a dependently typed lambda-calculus based on modal type theory. This allows us to justify optimizations to pattern...
Agents often want to protect private information, while at the same acting upon the information. These two desires are in conflict, and this conflict can be modeled in strategic...
Knowledge Provenance is an approach to determining the origin and validity of knowledge/information on the web by means of modeling and maintaining information sources and dependen...
A promising technique used in some planning systems to improve their performance is the use of domain dependent search control knowledge. We present a procedure for compiling sear...
Locality is a standard notion of finite model theory. There are two well known flavors of it, based on Hanf's and Gaifman's theorems. Essentially they say that structure...