Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
In reactive systems, execution is driven by external events to which the system should respond with appropriate actions. Such events can be simple, but systems are often supposed ...
Abstract. A policy is a statement that an action is permitted or forbidden if certain conditions hold. We introduce a language for reasoning about policies called Rosetta. What mak...
Abstract. Coordination languages are intended to simplify the development of complex software systems by separating the coordination aspects of an application from its computation ...
Alessandra Di Pierro, Chris Hankin, Herbert Wiklic...
Abstract. We show how to generate well-founded and stable term orderings based on polynomial interpretations over the real numbers. Monotonicity (another usual requirement in termi...