The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
This paper presents a formal model for asynchronous distributed systems with servers that may exhibit Byzantine faults or crash and subsequently recover. The model is computationa...
Abstract. Good tree search algorithms are a key requirement for inference engines of rule languages. As Prolog exemplifies, inference engines based on traditional uninformed searc...
Abstract. Autonomous agents operating in complex dynamic environments need the ability to integrate robust plan execution with higher level reasoning. This paper describes work to ...
Simon Parsons, Ola Pettersson, Alessandro Saffiott...
The combination of two security protocols, a simple shared-key communication protocol and the Di e-Hellman key distribution protocol, is modeled formally and proved correct. The m...