Default logic, one of the best known formalisms to express common sense reasoning, does not allow to reason by cases in its standard formulations. We propose a natural and easy way...
An agent's trust decision strategy consists of the agent's policies for making trust-related decisions, such as who to trust, how trustworthy to be, what reputations to ...
The Internet provides an environment where two parties, who are virtually strangers to each other, can make connections and do business together. Before any actual business starts...
Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Example Guided Abstraction Refinement (CEGAR) [6] framework. A number of wellengineered software model-checkers are available, e.g., SLAM [1] and BLAST [12]. Why build another one?...