In this paper, we describe a framework to program open societies of concurrently operating agents. The agents maintain a subjective theory about their environment and interact with...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
Although object-oriented programming techniques have evolved into an accepted technology with recognized benefits for software development, profound investigations of qualitative a...
A UML based metamodel for Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) ontology is presented. BWW ontology is a generic framework for analysis and conceptualization of real world objects. It includes c...
Abstract. Many distributed applications can be understood in terms of components interacting in an open environment. This interaction is not always uniform as the network may consi...
This paper outlines a generic, core temporal object model that provides support for the modeling of temporal object roles. This model draws from notions introduced in some of our ...