: We investigate behavioral institutions and refinements in the context of the object oriented paradigm. The novelty of our approach is the application of generalized abstract alge...
Component based design is a new paradigm to build distributed systems and applications. The problem of compositional verification of such systems is however still open. We investig...
Abstract. A viable ontology engineering methodology requires supporting domain experts in gradually building and managing increasingly complex versions of ontological elements and ...
Abstract. Electronic commerce has been one of the traditional arenas for agent technology. The complexity of these applications has been a challenge for researchers that have devel...
Abstract. In its core, the Semantic Web is about the creation, collection and interlinking of metadata on which agents can perform tasks for human users. While many tools and appro...