Abstract. In this paper, we study the operational semantics of agent communication languages.We develop a basic multi-agent programming language for systems of concurrently operati...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
In the semantic web context,the formal representation of knowledge is not resourceful while the informal one with uncertainty prevails. In order to provide an uncertainty reasoning...
Lei Li, Qiaoling Liu, Yunfeng Tao, Lei Zhang, Jian...
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
Medical CBIR (content-based image retrieval) applications pose unique challenges but at the same time offer many new opportunities. On one hand, while one can easily understand ne...
It has been widely suggested that memory transactions should behave as if they acquired and released a single global lock. Unfortunately, this behavior can be expensive to achieve...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...