We study fusion and binding mechanisms in name passing process calculi. To this purpose, we introduce the U-Calculus, a process calculus with no I/O polarities and a unique form of...
Michele Boreale, Maria Grazia Buscemi, Ugo Montana...
We seek to support the development of open, distributed applications from patible software abstractions. In order to rigorously specify these abstractions, we are elaborating a for...
Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz
Abstract. The fast emergent areas of the Semantic Web and knowledge management push researchers to new efforts concerning ontology engineering. The development of ontologies must b...
Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with "objective" knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there ha...
This paper presents an approach to create POMDP models, used for decision making by an autonomous service robot, from background knowledge. This allows the power of POMDP decision ...