A primary objective of this paper (as well as of this symposium) is to examine concepts from the field of complex systems that can be applied to systems engineering. In this paper ...
Together with the concept of reversibility, another relevant physical notion is time-symmetry, which expresses that there is no way of distinguishing between backward and forward t...
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
We discuss for the concept of promises within a framework that can be applied to either humans or technology. We compare promises to the more established notion of obligations and...