In many applications, tasks can be delegated to intelligent agents. In order to carry out a task, an agent should reason about what types of resources the task requires. However, ...
Murat Sensoy, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Timothy ...
The paper argues for the use of general and intuitive knowledge representation languages (and simpler notational variants, e.g. subsets of natural languages) for indexing the cont...
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 ...
Abstract. The pressing need for scalable query answering has motivated the development of many incomplete ontology-based reasoners. Improving the completeness of such systems witho...
We show that a wide class of bidirectional data-flow analyses and program optimizations based on them admit declarative descriptions in the form of type systems. The salient feat...