: This paper gives a definition of ASM refinement suitable for the verification that a protocol implements atomic transactions. We used this definition as the basis of the formal v...
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Patrick R. Conrad, Julie A. Shah, Brian C. William...
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm t...
Ambient Intelligent (AmI) environments are supposed to act proactively anticipating the user's needs and preferences, therefore the capability of an AmI system to learn those ...
Asier Aztiria, Juan Carlos Augusto, Alberto Izagui...
In the previous, companion, paper [13] to this paper we introduced our general model of refinement, discussed ideas around determinism and interfaces that the general definition r...