We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions tha...
Hybrid genetic algorithms have received significant interest in recent years and are being increasingly used to solve real-world problems. A genetic algorithm is able to incorporat...
Tarek A. El-Mihoub, Adrian A. Hopgood, Lars Nolle,...
This paper defines action-labelled quantitative transition systems as a general framework for combining qualitative and quantitative analysis. We define state-metrics as a natural...
Yuxin Deng, Tom Chothia, Catuscia Palamidessi, Jun...
We deal with temporal aspects of distributed systems, introducing and studying a new model called timed distributed -calculus. This model extends distributed -calculus with timers...
In this paper, we provide a heuristic procedure, that performs well from a global optimality point of view, for an important and difficult class of bilevel programs. The algorithm...