This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
The requirements for a system are often specified as textual use cases. Although they are written in natural language, the simple and uniform sentence structure used makes automate...
— The need for self-healing software to respond with a reactive, proactive or preventative action as a result of changes in its environment has added the non-functional requireme...
An agent who bases his actions upon explicit logical formulae has at any given point in time a finite set of formulae he has computed. Closure or consistency conditions on this se...
In this paper we propose a formalization of probable innocence, a notion of probabilistic anonymity that is associated to “realistic” protocols such as Crowds. We analyze crit...