Abstract. We present a model of object-oriented and component-based refinement. For object-orientation, the model is class-based and refinement is about correct changes in the stru...
What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Delegation is a foundational concept for understanding and engineering systems that interact and execute tasks autonomously. By extending recent work on tensed action logic, it be...
We present systems of logic programming agents (LPAS) to model the interactions between decision-makers while evolving to a conclusion. Such a system consists of a number of agents...
This paper is devoted to the presentation of the RT-LOTOS formal description technique, which is a formalism suited for applications where concurrency, complex synchronization pat...
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, C. A. S. Santos, Christophe ...