The action systems framework has recently been applied to the area of synchronous VLSI design. In this paper, we present a set of concepts necessary in the formal design of synchr...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widely used as device controllers for assembly lines, chemical processes, or power plants. Sequential Function Charts (SFC) form one of the...
Nanette Bauer, Ralf Huuck, Ben Lukoschus, Sebastia...
We propose a situation calculus formalization of action domains that include numeric-valued fluents (so-called additive or measure fluents) and concurrency. Our approach allows fo...
The behavior of an agent is defined through the specification of plans and actions. Agents have a set of plans that are selected to be executed according to their goals (and other...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Jo...
Formal analyses of social action for Distributed A.I. (DAI) have focussed, almost exclusively, on scenarios in which participating agents have a joint intention to act. While such ...