Atomicity is a desirable property that safeguards application consistency for service compositions. A service composition exhibiting this property could either complete or cancel ...
Normative systems in a multiagent system must be able to evolve over time, for example due to actions creating or removing norms in the system. The only formal framework to evalua...
Guido Boella, Gabriella Pigozzi, Leendert van der ...
Abstract. The paper starts from the standard relational view linking objects and properties in formal concept analysis, here augmented with four modal-style operators (known as suf...
Didier Dubois, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Henri ...
Abstract. Consciousness supervenes on activity; computation supervenes on structure. Because of this, some argue, conscious states cannot supervene on computational ones. If true, ...
Abstract. Location-dependent services are services that adapt their behavior based on the locations of mobile devices. For many applications, it is critical that location-dependent...