Several proposals have been put forward to support distributed agent cooperation in the Semantic Web, by allowing concepts and roles in one ontology be reused in another ontology. ...
Yuting Zhao, Kewen Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Jeff Z. ...
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 trust ...
We propose a development methodology for designing and prototyping high assurance microkernels, and describe our application of it. The methodology is based on rapid prototyping a...
Philip Derrin, Kevin Elphinstone, Gerwin Klein, Da...
This paper presents a model for adaptive agents. The model describes the behavior of an agent as a graph of roles, in short a behavior graph. Links between roles provide conditions...
Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet, Olivie...
Model checking has proven to be an effective technology for verification and debugging in hardware and more recently in software domains. We believe that recent trends in both th...
Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Matthew Hoosier, ...