Abstract. The design of reactive systems must comply with logical correctness (the system does what it is supposed to do) and timeliness (the system has to satisfy a set of tempora...
In complex systems, like robot plants, applications are built on top of a set of components, or devices. Each of them has particular individual constraints, and there are also log...
This paper describes a set of tools that allows a developer to instrument an autonomous control system to log data at run-time and then analyze that data to verify correct program...
David Kortenkamp, Reid G. Simmons, Tod Milam, Joaq...
This paper aims at integrating techniques of non-monotonic reasoning about updates and of object-oriented specification of information systems. We present how to utilize defaults i...
One approach to moderating the expected behaviour of agents in open societies is the use of explicit languages for defining norms, conditional commitments and/or social expectation...