Local (first order) sentences, introduced by Ressayre, enjoy very nice decidability properties, following from some stretching theorems stating some remarkable links between the ...
Distributed negotiation schemes offer one approach to agreeing an allocation of resources among a set of individual agents. Such schemes attempt to agree a distribution via a sequ...
In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanes...
Since knowledge bases (KBs) are usually incomplete, they should be able to provide information regarding their own incompleteness, which requires them to introspect on what they k...
Abstract. Logics of knowledge have important applications for reasoning about security protocols and multi-agent systems. We extend the semantics for the logic of necessity with lo...