: In this paper, Event Process Chains (EPCs) and activity diagrams (ADs) of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are compared with respect to (1) their syntax and its expressiveness...
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions of agents (permissions, pro...
Current alternatives for language modeling are statistical techniques based on large amounts of training data, and hand-crafted context-free or finite-state grammars that are diff...
John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Jean Mark Gawron, C...
— The paper focuses on the problem how a community of distributed agents may autonomously invent and coordinate lexicons and grammars. Although our earlier experiments have shown...
Abstract Resource adaptlvity" Because the sets of strucNatural language parsing is conceived to be a procedure of disambiguation, which successively reduces an initially total...