This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
The notion of a fragment was coined by Montague 1974 to illustrate the formal handling of certain puzzles, such as de dicto/de re, in a truth-conditional semantics for natural lan...
A formal semantics of uncertain databases typically takes an algebraic approach by mapping an uncertain database to a set of relational databases, or possible worlds. We present a...
We present a Petri net semantics for the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL). Our semantics covers the standard behaviour of BPEL as well as the exceptional...
Sebastian Hinz, Karsten Schmidt 0004, Christian St...
Structural congruences have been used to define the semantics and to capture inherent properties of language constructs. They have been used as an addendum to transition system sp...