We show how to automatically verify that complex XScale-like pipelined machine models satisfy the same safety and liveness properties as their corresponding instruction set archit...
In this paper a theory of dialogue acts analysis in problem-solving tasks-oriented conversations is presented. The theory postulates that in practical dialogues every transaction h...
The aim of education is to provide the basis for life long learning and improvement. In this direction, schools and universities offer standard curricula aiming to cover the fundam...
Ad hoc networks are a type of computational system whose members may fail to, or choose not to, comply with the laws governing their behaviour. We are investigating to what extent ...
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...