A policy describes the conditions under which an action is permitted or forbidden. We show that a fragment of (multi-sorted) first-order logic can be used to represent and reason...
People often need to reason about policy changes before they are adopted. For example, suppose a website manager knows that users want to enter her site without going through the w...
Advances in scheduling theory have given designers of control systems greater flexibility over their choice of timing requirements. This could lead to systems becoming more respon...
Planning algorithms have traditionally been geared toward achievement goals in single-agent environments. Such algorithms essentially produce plans to reach one of a specified se...
Abstract. Finding the optimal selection of an OWL reasoner and service interface for a specific ontology-based application is challenging. Over time it has become more and more di...