Systems that can immediately react to their inputs may suffer from cyclic dependencies between their actions and the corresponding trigger conditions. For this reason, causality an...
Abstract. A temporal logic is proposed as a tool for specifying properties of Klaim programs. Klaim is an experimental programming language that supports a programming paradigm whe...
When a new component is added to an existing, distributed system, it has to co-operate with existing components in a way that doesn’t interfere badly with the original system. A...
We consider the problem of representing plans for mixed-initiative planning, where several participants cooperate to develop plans. We claim that in such an environment, a crucial...
The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...