Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
Abstract: A model (consisting of rv-systems), a core programming language (for developing rv-programs), several specification and analysis techniques appropriate for modeling, pro...
Alexandru Popa, Alexandru Sofronia, Gheorghe Stefa...
Abstraction by Typing Andrew D. Gordon Microsoft Research Riccardo Pucella Cornell University An XML web service is, to a first approximation, an RPC service in which requests and...
This paper addresses the logical foundations of goal-regression planning in autonomous rational agents. It focuses mainly on three problems. The first is that goals and subgoals w...
The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed (Mackenzie and Wacjman, 1985; Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987; Bijker and L...