Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
A logic is defined which in addition to propositional calculus contains several types of probabilistic operators which are applied only to propositional formulas. For every s ∈...
Circus is a combination of Z, CSP, and Morgan’s refinement calculus; it has an associated refinement strategy that supports the development of reactive programs. In this work, ...
In this paper we present R-DEVICE, a deductive rule language for reasoning about RDF metadata. R-DEVICE includes features such as normal and generalized path expressions, stratifie...
In previous papers, we have presented a logic-based framework for merging structured news reports [14, 16, 15]. Structured news reports are XML documents, where the text entries ar...