We provide an automata-theoretic solution to one of the main open questions about the UML standard, namely how to assign a formal semantics to a set of sequence diagrams without c...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Business applications are more and more often developed on the basis of Web services. The aim is to provide platform independence and loose coupling between business applications ...
We propose CMSMs, a novel type of generic compositional models for syntactic and semantic aspects of natural language, based on matrix multiplication. We argue for the structural ...
The interpretation of conditionals in the scope of a quantifier (as in `No student will succeed if he goofs off') presents a troubling puzzle. Either we are forced to abandon...