This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
Abstract— Map information is important for path planning and self-localization when mobile robots accomplish autonomous tasks. In unknown environments, mobile robots should gener...
—Verification is a major issue in circuit and system design. Formal methods like bounded model checking (BMC) can guarantee a high quality of the verification. There are severa...
Program termination is central to the process of ensuring that systems code can always react. We describe a new program termination prover that performs a path-sensitive and conte...
The ESC/Java tool was a lauded advance in effective static checking of realistic Java programs, but has become out-of-date with respect to Java and the Java Modeling Language (JML...