Abstract. This paper presents a formal verification algorithm for finding errors in models of complex concurrent systems. The algorithm improves explicit guided model checking by a...
In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a negotiation protocol (NP0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a pe...
Many knowledge acquisition approaches have been proposed to minimize the cognitive effort in knowledgebased system construction. The knowledge acquisition approach proposed here p...
This paper addresses the representation of the main elements of instructional models using formal ontology languages. Following existing conceptualizations, models, methods and con...
Reachability analysis is one of the most successful methods used in design and validation of protocols for classical communication, whereas the predicate/transition-net formalism i...