At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
This paper proposes a logic-oriented framework for institutional agents specification and analysis. Within this framework institutional agents are seen as artificial agents that a...
In this paper, we describe the process specification language ConGolog and show how it can be used to model business processes for requirements analysis. In ConGolog, the effects...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu