Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Abstraction and application, tupling and projection: these provide the ‘software engineering’ superstructure for programs, and our familiar type systems ensure that these opera...
This paper describes an ontology for enterprise modelling, The ontology has enabled conceptual integration of two different modelling methodologies, one based on UEML (Unified Ente...
Intranet access has become an essential function for corporate users. At the same time, corporation’s security administrators have little ability to control access to corporate ...
In real-life temporal scenarios, uncertainty and preferences are often essential, coexisting aspects. We present a formalism where temporal constraints with both preferences and un...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Neil Yorke...