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2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SweetDeal: representing agent contracts with exceptions using XML rules, ontologies, and process descriptions
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon
POPL
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Context logic and tree update
Spatial logics have been used to describe properties of treelike structures (Ambient Logic) and in a Hoare style to reason about dynamic updates of heap-like structures (Separatio...
Cristiano Calcagno, Philippa Gardner, Uri Zarfaty
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Distinguishing Answers in Conceptual Graph Knowledge Bases
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Nicolas Moreau, Michel Leclère, Madalina Cr...
MEMOCODE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Latency-insensitive design and central repetitive scheduling
The theory of latency-insensitive design (LID) was recently invented to cope with the time closure problem in otherwise synchronous circuits and programs. The idea is to allow the...
Julien Boucaron, Robert de Simone, Jean-Vivien Mil...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Battery optimization vs energy optimization: which to choose and when?
— Batteries are non-ideal energy sources – minimizing the energy consumption of a battery-powered system is not equivalent to maximizing its battery life. We propose an alterna...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula