Languages like ML and Haskell encourage the view of values as first-class entities that can be passed as arguments or results of functions, or stored as components of data struct...
A general logical framework is presented to represent speech acts that have institutional effects. It is based on the concepts of the Speech Act Theory and takes the form of the FI...
In this paper we formally specify and verify an implementation of the IEEE802.11a standard physical layer based OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modem using the HO...
Abu Nasser Mohammed Abdullah, Behzad Akbarpour, So...
In open multi-agent systems (MASs) we cannot assume agents to be developed in a centralized fashion. Recent proposals of commitmentbased communication frameworks aim at increasing ...
We study highly expressive query languages such as datalog, fixpoint, and while-languages on probabilistic databases. We generalize these languages such that computation steps (e....