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DALT
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Understanding Permissions through Graphical Norms
Abstract. Norm-aware agents are able to reason about the obligations, permissions and prohibitions that affect their operation. While much work has focused on the creation of such ...
Nir Oren, Madalina Croitoru, Simon Miles, Michael ...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A Model and a Design Approach to Building QoS Adaptive Systems
The paper introduces a system model called the probabilistic asynchronous model which characterises the context in which many practical and the Internet-based applications are bui...
Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Santosh K. Shrivastava
ASM
2010
ASM
14 years 7 months ago
Reasoned Modelling Critics: Turning Failed Proofs into Modelling Guidance
The activities of formal modelling and reasoning are closely related. But while the rigour of building formal models brings significant benefits, formal reasoning remains a major...
Andrew Ireland, Gudmund Grov, Michael Butler
ACOM
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using Social Commitments to Control the Agents' Freedom of Speech
Communication is essential in multi-agent systems, since it allows agents to share knowledge and to coordinate. However, in open multi-agent systems, autonomous and heterogeneous a...
Guillaume Muller, Laurent Vercouter
ISMIS
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Chisholm Paradox and the Situation Calculus
Deontic logic is appropriate to model a wide variety of legal arguments, however this logic suffers form certain paradoxes of which the so-called Chisholm is one of the most notor...
Robert Demolombe, Maria del Pilar Pozos Parra