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AAAI
1990
15 years 4 months ago
On Acting Together
Joint action by a team does not consist merely of simultaneous and coordinated individual actions; to act together, a team must be aware of and care about the status of the group ...
Hector J. Levesque, Philip R. Cohen, José H...
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EKAW
2000
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Formal Ontology of Properties
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
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ACMICEC
2006
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
A semantic web approach to handling soft constraints in virtual organisations
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie, J...
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Business contracts tend to be complex. In current practice, contracts are often designed by hand and adopted by their participants after, at best, a manual analysis. This paper mo...
Nirmit Desai, Nanjangud C. Narendra, Munindar P. S...