In this paper we present an agent language that combines agent functionality with an action theory and model-theoretic semantics. The language is based on abductive logic programmi...
Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as the eminent market environment for sharing and reusing service-centric capabilities. The underpinning for an organization's us...
Srividya Kona, Ajay Bansal, M. Brian Blake, Gopal ...
Consistency checking in the CSP B approach verifies that an individual controller process, defined using a sequential non-divergent subset of CSP, never calls a B operation outsid...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...