Abstract. In this paper we describe an approach to the representation and implementation of agent-based systems where the behaviour of an individual agent is represented by a set o...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the difï¬...
Abstract. We investigate streaming evaluation of filters on XML documents, evaluated both at the root node and at an arbitrary node. Motivated by applications in protocol processin...
Abstract. OWL DL, a new W3C ontology language recommendation, is based on the expressive description logic SHOIN. Although the ontology consistency problem for SHOIN is known to be...
Work on agent communication languages has since long striven to achieve adequate speech act semantics; partly, the problem is that references to an agent’s architecture (in parti...