In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with "objective" knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there ha...
We propose a logic for specifying security policies at a very el of abstraction. The logic accommodates the subjective nature of affirmations for authorization and knowledge withou...
Deepak Garg, Lujo Bauer, Kevin D. Bowers, Frank Pf...
A number of useful optimisations are enabled if we can determine when a value is accessed at most once. We extend the Hindley-Milner type system with uses, yielding a typeinferenc...
operator abstraction is a language construct relevant to object oriented programming languages and to ML2000, the successor to Standard ML. In this paper, we introduce Fω ≤, a ...