- In order to accomplish independence on the logical data organization, a relational DBMS must be capable of interpreting query language sentences which reference attributes belong...
Protocols specifying business interactions among autonomous parties enable reuse and promote interoperability. A protocol is specified from a global viewpoint, but enacted in a di...
Abstract. There are two main traditions in defining a semantics for agent communication languages, based either on mental attitudes or on social commitments. In this paper, we tran...
We consider problems where several individuals each need to make a yes/no choice regarding a number of issues and these choices then need to be aggregated into a collective choice...
In this paper we present a novel approach to the incremental incorporation of semantic information in natural language processing which does not fall victim to the notorious probl...