This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Overhearing is gaining attention as a generic method for cooperative monitoring of distributed, open, multiagent systems. It involves monitoring the routine conversations of agent...
SHE (Software/Hardware Engineering) is an objectoriented analysis, specification and design method for complex reactive hardware/software systems. SHE is based on the formal speci...
Jeroen Voeten, P. H. A. van der Putten, M. P. J. S...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
Practical reasoning (PR), as advocated by philosophers is concerned by reasoning about what agents should do. It follows mainly two steps. A deliberation one for identifying the g...