Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
In high-tech businesses ranging from Internet service providers to e-commerce websites and music stores like Apple iTunes, there is considerable potential for collecting personal ...
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
We describe a link between the ACL2 and HOL mechanical proof assistants that enables the strengths of each system to be deployed smoothly within a single formal development. Severa...
Michael J. C. Gordon, James Reynolds, Warren A. Hu...
Abstract. We consider an algorithmic approach for revising inconsistent data and restoring its consistency. This approach detects the\spoiled" part of the data (i.e., the set ...