Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
We develop the rst steps of a theory of concurrency within the framework of evolving algebras of Gurevich, with the aim of investigating its suitability for the role of a general f...
In this paper, we present a normal form for concept expressions in the description logic ALC which is based on a recently introduced notion of prime implicate for the modal logic ...
This work faces the problem of web service selection and composition, discussing the advantages that derive from the inclusion, in a web service declarative description, of the hi...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
Using model checking to verify that interaction protocols have given properties is widely recognized as an important issue in multiagent systems where autonomous and heterogeneous ...