The governance of open multi-agent systems is particular important since those systems are composed by heterogeneous, autonomous and independently designed agents. Such governance ...
A rational agent derives its choice of action from its beliefs and goals. Goals can be distinguished into achievement goals and maintenance goals. The aim of this paper is to defi...
Modular Monadic Semantics (MMS) is a well-known mechanism for structuring modular denotational semantic definitions for programming languages. The principal attraction of MMS is ...
Philip Weaver, Garrin Kimmell, Nicolas Frisby, Per...
This paper formalizes three kinds of safety to be satisfied by networked appliances and services in the emerging home network system (HNS). The local safety is defined by safety ...
Ben Yan, Masahide Nakamura, Lydie du Bousquet, Ken...
Abstract. The paper describes an infotainment application where lifelike characters present two MP3 players in a virtual showroom. The key feature of the system is that the present...
Tobias Eichner, Helmut Prendinger, Elisabeth Andr&...