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DEON
2006
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Speech Acts with Institutional Effects in Agent Societies
A general logical framework is presented to represent speech acts that have institutional effects. It is based on the concepts of the Speech Act Theory and takes the form of the FI...
Robert Demolombe, Vincent Louis
CI
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
A Guided Tour through Some Extensions of the Event Calculus
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, derives the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) over which prop...
Iliano Cervesato, Massimo Franceschet, Angelo Mont...
NDJFL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Polyadic Quantification via Denoting Concepts
The question of the origin of polyadic expressivity is explored and the results are brought to bear on Bertrand Russell's 1903 theory of denoting concepts, which is the main o...
Ori Simchen
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
From Z to BON/Eiffel
It is shown how to make a transition from the Z formal notation [3] to the Business Object Notation (BON) [4]. It is demonstrated that BON has the expressive power of Z, with the ...
Richard F. Paige, Jonathan S. Ostroff
IANDC
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
A Conservative Look at Operational Semantics with Variable Binding
We set up a formal framework to describe transition system specifications in the style of Plotkin. This framework has the power to express many-sortedness, general binding mechan...
Wan Fokkink, Chris Verhoef