ABSTRACT. Statements not only update our current knowledge, but also have other dynamic effects. In particular, suggestions or commands ‘upgrade’ our preferences by changing th...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
We extend Schaeffer's bijection between rooted quadrangulations and welllabeled trees to the general case of Eulerian planar maps with prescribed face valences to obtain a bi...
There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arg...
Abstract. An important application of unique object references is safe and efficient message passing in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects...