Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
Today, many software-based, reactive systems offer a multitude of functionality. One way to master the development of such a system is to model its functionality on an abstract le...
Alexander Gruler, Alexander Harhurin, Judith Hartm...
We consider the timed automata model of [3], which allows the analysis of realtime systems expressed in terms of quantitative timing constraints. Traditional approaches to real-ti...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segal...
Default reasoning has become an important topic in software engineering. In particular, defaults can be used to revise speci cations, to enhance reusability of existing systems, an...
Abstract--Pervasive computing applications involve both software concerns, like any software system, and integration concerns, for the constituent networked devices of the pervasiv...