SOFIA (Artemis project: http://www.sofiaproject.eu/) focuses on answering the challenge of creating smart environments and its goal is to make information that resides in the phys...
The mediator-wrapper approach to integrate data from heterogeneous data sources has usually been centralized in the sense that a single mediator system is placed between a number o...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a model that allows agents to deliberate using defeasible argumentation, to share knowledge with other agents, and to represent individual knowle...
Abstract Asynchronous invocations are an important functionality in the context of distributed object frameworks, because in many situations clients should not block during remote ...
In this paper, we present an overview to programming with proofs in the reasoning framework, Beluga. Beluga supports the specification of formal systems given by axioms and inferen...