This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
: "Text messaging" -- using a mobile phone to send a message -- has changed how teenagers use wireless phones to communicate and coordinate. While the media reports rapid...
— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...
Abstract. Case retrieval is an important problem in several commercially signi cant application areas, such as industrial con guration and manufacturing problems. In this paper we ...
— Increasingly, licensing and safety regulatory bodies require the suppliers of software-intensive, safety-critical systems to provide an explicit software safety case – a stru...