How to achieve shared meaning is a significant issue when more than one intelligent agent is involved in the same domain. We define the task of concept convergence, by which intell...
Abstract. There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing con...
In this work, we first consider a goal-oriented extension of the dependency pair framework for proving termination w.r.t. a given set of initial terms. Then, we introduce a new re...
Abstract. One of the main challenges for the successful application of agentbased systems in mobile and embedded devices is enabling application developers to reconcile the needs o...
This paper offers two main contributions. On the one hand, it establishes a general formal framework for developing a foundational ontology of socially constructed entities, in th...