Commitments provide a flexible means for specifying the business relationships among autonomous and heterogeneous agents, and lead to a natural way of enacting such relationships...
We consider the frame problem, that is, char acterizing the assumption that properties tend to persist over time. We show that there are at least three distinct assumptions that...
The situation calculus is a popular technique for reasoning about action and change. However, its restriction to a firstorder syntax and pure deductive reasoning makes it unsuitab...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
The problem of representing and reasoning about two notions of time that are relevant in the context of knowledge bases is addressed. These are called historical time and belief t...
We propose to extend the temporal causal graph formalisms used in model-based diagnosis in order to deal with non trivial interactions like (partial) cancellation of fault effects...