: This paper presents the overall design of a multi-agent framework for improving the performance of an application executing in a distributed environment. The multi-agent framewor...
Abstract. Nominal Logic is an extension of first-order logic with equality, name-binding, name-swapping, and freshness of names. Contrarily to higher-order logic, bound variables a...
We present a restriction of the solos calculus which is stable under reduction and expressive enough to contain an encoding of the pi-calculus. As a consequence, it is shown that ...
We study tree languages that can be defined in 2. These are tree languages definable by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is , and simultaneously by a first-order for...
Abstract--A multiple access channel and a point-to-point channel sharing the same medium for communications are considered. We obtain an outer bound for the capacity region of this...