This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
In this paper, we study the reachability problem for the class of (strictly) monotone Petri nets that we define based on algebraic conditions. More specifically, given a (strictly)...
Mixed-signal design and test tools are failing to keep apace with the increasing necessity for design exploration at the e arly stages.We outline a methodolo gy and toolset to ena...
Abstract. Writing specifications using Java Modeling Language has been accepted for a long time as a practical approach to increasing the correctness and quality of Java programs. ...
We present two models of hierarchical structured multi-agents, and we describe how to obtain a modal knowledge base from distributed sources. We then propose a computationally orie...