We introduce the notion of resiliency policies in the context of access control systems. Such policies require an access control system to be resilient to the absence of users. An...
The declarative modeling language Alloy and its automatic analyzer provide an effective tool-set for building designs of systems and checking their properties. The Alloy Analyzer p...
We reuse here the framework, the setting, and the semantic modelling for the automated synthesis of the SWS Challenge Mediator presented in the companion paper [5], and show how to...
Christian Kubczak, Tiziana Margaria, Matthias Kais...
We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of `lightweight' description...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish thing...