We address the problem of standardising the semantics of agent communication. The diversity of existing approaches suggests that no single agent communication language can satisfac...
Abstract. The paper develops fuzzy attribute logic, i.e. a logic for reasoning about formulas of the form A ⇒ B where A and B are fuzzy sets of attributes. A formula A ⇒ B repr...
In this paper we propose a nonmonotonic extension ALC + Tmin of the Description Logic ALC for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exception. The logic ALC ...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...
This paper presents MetaNews, an information gathering agent for news articles on the Web. MetaNews reads HTML documents from online news sites and extracts article information fro...
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter