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IFIP
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Semantics of Trust
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Tim Muller
IDT
2010
124views more  IDT 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Modelling decision making with probabilistic causation
Humans know how to reason based on cause and effect, but cause and effect is not enough to draw conclusions due to the problem of imperfect information and uncertainty. To resol...
Luís Moniz Pereira, Carroline Kencana Ramli
ICFEM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Memory-Model-Sensitive Data Race Analysis
Abstract. We present a “memory-model-sensitive” approach to validating correctness properties for multithreaded programs. Our key insight is that by specifying both the inter-t...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
SweetDeal: representing agent contracts with exceptions using XML rules, ontologies, and process descriptions
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon
JELIA
1990
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Interpretation as Higher-Order Deduction
Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
Fernando C. N. Pereira