Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
The Web Ontology Language (OWL), which is a Description Logic based ontology language, is widely used to represent formal definitions of vocabularies for domain knowledge, especial...
Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
A well-known framework by Fagin, Halpern, Moses and Vardi models knowledge-based agents as \Interpreted Systems". In this paper we analyse a particular class of interpreted sy...
While in most planning approaches goals and plans are different objects, it is often useful to specify goals that combine declarative conditions with procedural plans. In this pap...