Optimistic concurrency algorithms provide good performance for parallel programs but they are extremely hard to reason about. Program logics such as concurrent separation logic and...
Ming Fu, Yong Li, Xinyu Feng, Zhong Shao, Yu Zhang
Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
Historically, various different notions of trust can be found, each addressing particular aspects of ICT systems, e.g. trust in electronic commerce systems based on reputation and...
We show that problems arising in static analysis of XML specifications and transformations can be dealt with using techniques similar to those developed for static analysis of pr...
The aim of this work is to propose a logical framework for the specification of cognitive emotions that are based on counterfactual reasoning about agents’ choices. An example ...