We argue that certain theoretical commitments that underpin much existing Interorganisational Information Systems (IOIS) research at small scales become untenable when IOIS are st...
Conventional specifications for object-oriented (OO) programs must adhere to behavioral subtyping in support of class inheritance and method overriding. However, this requirement ...
Wei-Ngan Chin, Cristina David, Huu Hai Nguyen, She...
We propose a practical path-based framework for deriving and simplifying source-tracking information for term unification in the empty theory. Such a framework is useful for debugg...
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
One aspect of rational behavior is that agents can pursue multiple goals in parallel. Current BDI theory and systems do not provide a theoretical or architectural framework for dec...
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdo...