This paper extends basic software-testing theory to software components and adds explicit state to the theory. The resulting theory e enough to abstractly model the construction o...
What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on ...
We establish that the decidability of the first order theory of a class of finite structures ¢ is a simple and useful condition for guaranteeing that the expressive power of FO...
We present a Bayesian blackboard system for temporal perception, applied to a minidomain task in musical scene analysis. It is similar to the classic Copycat architecture (Hofstad...
We represent agents as sets of strings. Each string encodes a potential interaction with another agent or environment. We represent the total set of dynamics between two agents as ...