Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...
Abstract. We propose a new class of tree automata, called tree automata with normalization (TAN). This framework extends equational tree automata, and improved the results of them:...
Abstract. We define and study formal privacy guarantees for information integration systems, where sources are related to a public schema by mappings given by source-to-target dep...
Abstract. This paper presents a method which allows for merging beliefs expressed thanks to logic programming with stable model semantics. This method is based on the syntactic mer...
: Retrenchment is introduced as a liberalisation of refinement intended to address some of the shortcomings of refinement as sole means of progressing from simple abstract models t...