Model checkers were originally developed to support the formal verification of high-level design models of distributed system designs. Over the years, they have become unmatched in...
hin an abstract microworld of analogy problems. This approach differs from most other models of analogy in its insistence that concepts acquire their semantics from within the syst...
Qualitative coalitional games (QCGs) were introduced as abstract formal models of goal-oriented cooperative systems. A QCG is a game in which each agent is assumed to have some goa...
Paul E. Dunne, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldri...
CASO is an agent-oriented programming language based on AgentSpeak(L), one of the most influential abstract languages based on the BDI (Beliefs-Desires-Intentions) architecture. ...
Abstract—In multilevel systems it is important to avoid unwanted indirect information flow from higher levels to lower levels, namely the so called covert channels. Initial stud...
Ruggero Lanotte, Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini, Angelo...