The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...
In this paper we introduce a formal framework for the construction of normative multiagent systems, based on Searle’s notion of the construction of social reality. Within the st...
This paper presents a Hoare-style logic for reasoning about the frequency response of control systems in the continuous-time domain. Two properties, the gain (amplitude) and phase ...
There is a need for research on the scientific base and engineering requirements for building trustworthy systems in dynamic environments. To address this need, we study risk analy...
Knowledge representation has always been a major problem in the design of medical decision support systems. In this paper we present a new methodology to represent and reason about...