Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
We study the complexity of the reachability problem for a new subclass of Petri nets called simple-circuit Petri nets, which properly contains several well known subclasses such as...
If one has attributed certain initial beliefs to an agent, it is sometimes possible to reason about further beliefs the agent must hold by observing what conclusions one's ow...
Ordinary logical implication is not enough for answering queries in a logic database, since especially negative information is only implicitly represented in the database state. M...
Mazurkiewicz traces form a model for concurrency. Temporal logic st-order logic are important tools in order to deal with the abstract behavior of such systems. Since typical prop...