Abstract Let L be a propositional language with standard Boolean connectives plus two modalities: an S4-ish topological modality and a temporal modality , understood as `next'...
Abstract. In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the observable message-passing behavior of services. Contracts have been already successfully ...
The goal of this paper is to translate (fragments of) the quantified discrete duration calculus QDDC, proposed by P. Pandya, into symbolic acceptors with counters. Acceptors are w...
We present a semantics-based technique for modeling and analysing resource usage behaviour of programs written in a simple object oriented language like Java e code. The approach ...
A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory s t...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...