Abstract. In this work, an agent architecture that combines defeasible argumentation and the BDI model is described. Argumentation will be used as a mechanism for reasoning about b...
Abstract. Cryptographic operations are essential for many security-critical systems. Reasoning about information flow in such systems is challenging because typical (noninterferenc...
— MapReduce has become an effective approach to big data analytics in large cluster systems, where SQL-like queries play important roles to interface between users and systems. H...
We show how to reason about “step-indexed” logitions in an abstract way, avoiding the tedious, error-prone, and proof-obscuring step-index arithmetic that seems superficially...
The aggregate motion of a flock of birds, a herd of land animals, or a school of fish is a beautiful and familiar part of the natural world. But this type of complex motion is rar...