This paper aims to simplify recent efforts proposed by the Berkeley school in giving a formal semantics to the Ptolemy toolbox. We achieve this by developing a simple and elegant ...
Paul Caspi, Albert Benveniste, Roberto Lublinerman...
Normative systems in a multiagent system must be able to evolve over time, for example due to actions creating or removing norms in the system. The only formal framework to evalua...
Guido Boella, Gabriella Pigozzi, Leendert van der ...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
The trend towards highly specialized solution providers cooperatively offering configurable products and services to their customers requires the extension of current (standalone)...
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Ja...
Gossip-based protocols are commonly used for diffusing information in large-scale distributed applications. GO (Gossip Objects) is a per-node gossip platform that we developed in...
Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak P. Na...