A team of agents planning to perform a complex task make a number of interrelated decisions as they determine precisely how that complex task will be performed. The decision set i...
Many verification problems reduce to proving the validity of formulas involving both propositional connectives and domain-specific functions and predicates. This paper presents ...
Cormac Flanagan, Rajeev Joshi, Xinming Ou, James B...
This essay adopts a formal model of play as semiosis [18] to explore the often dysfunctional role of backstories within computer game design and play. Within this model, backstori...
This paper introduces process spaces, a unified theory of interacting systems. The trait, abstract executions, leads to a simple and general set formalism. For concurrent systems ...
Formal specifications of protocol-oriented agent interactions have focused mainly on the semantics of the constituent agent communication language (ACL). We argue that a proper th...