Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...
Agent communication languages defined using joint intention theory have enjoyed a long research history. A number of performatives have been defined and refined in this literature ...
We propose a type and effect system for authentication protocols built upon a tagging scheme that formalizes the intended semantics of ciphertexts. The main result is that the val...
Abstract. We present a “memory-model-sensitive” approach to validating correctness properties for multithreaded programs. Our key insight is that by specifying both the inter-t...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...