This paper describes the Mediating Agent, an animated pedagogical agent inserted in a computational system for distance learning, which has the goal of motivating the student to le...
Abstract. Time Petri nets have proved their interest in modeling realtime concurrent systems. Their usual semantics is defined in term of firing sequences, which can be coded in a ...
We present the TIC (Transactions with Isolation and Cooperation) model for concurrent programming. TIC adds to standard transactional memory the ability for a transaction to obser...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
As the requirements for system analysis and design become more complex, the need for a natural, yet formal way of specifying system analysis findings and design decisions are becom...