The calculus outlined in this paper provides a formal architectural framework for describing and reasoning about the properties of multi-user and mobile distributed interactive sys...
W. Greg Phillips, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christoph...
This paper presents a simulation performance improvement of the application of the Multicomponent Discrete Time System Specification (MultiDTSS) formalism to a fire spread. Multic...
Abstract. Most array operations in Sac are specified in terms of so-called withloops, a Sac-specific form of array comprehension. Due to the map-like semantics of with-loops its ...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
CHOPRA, AMIT KHUSHWANT. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh). Protocols in open and dynamic multiagent systems cannot be modeled via fo...