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ATAL
2003
Springer
16 years 21 hour ago
Norm adoption in the NoA agent architecture
Agents based on reactive planning architectures use pre-specified plans as behaviour specifications. Normative agents are motivated by norms in their behaviour: obligations motiva...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman
VLDB
2001
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Transaction Timestamping in (Temporal) Databases
Many database applications need accountability and trace-ability that necessitate retaining previous database states. For a transaction-time database supporting this, the choice o...
Christian S. Jensen, David B. Lomet
CP
2000
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Constraint Propagation for Soft Constraints: Generalization and Termination Conditions
Soft constraints based on semirings are a generalization of classical constraints, where tuples of variables' values in each soft constraint are uniquely associated to element...
Stefano Bistarelli, Rosella Gennari, Francesca Ros...
SSD
1993
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Realms: A Foundation for Spatial Data Types in Database Systems
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Ralf Hartmut Güting, Markus Schneider
FASE
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Formal Approach to Heterogeneous Software Modeling
The problem of consistently engineering large, complex software systems of today is often addressed by introducing new, "improved" models. Examples of such models are arc...
Alexander Egyed, Nenad Medvidovic