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JELIA
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical Decision Making by Autonomous Agents
Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
KR
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Causal Logic of Logic Programming
The causal logic from (Bochman 2003b) is shown to provide a natural logical basis for logic programming. More exactly, it is argued that any logic program can be seen as a causal ...
Alexander Bochman
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Super and inner: together at last!
In an object-oriented language, a derived class may declare a method with the same signature as a method in the base class. The meaning of the re-declaration depends on the langua...
David S. Goldberg, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew F...
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Scalable extensibility via nested inheritance
Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
Nathaniel Nystrom, Stephen Chong, Andrew C. Myers
POLICY
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Cassandra: Distributed Access Control Policies with Tunable Expressiveness
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Moritz Y. Becker, Peter Sewell