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DALT
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Extending the Operational Semantics of a BDI Agent-Oriented Programming Language for Introducing Speech-Act Based Communication
Work on agent communication languages has since long striven to achieve adequate speech act semantics; partly, the problem is that references to an agent’s architecture (in parti...
Álvaro F. Moreira, Renata Vieira, Rafael H....
CSL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modular Semantics and Logics of Classes
The semantics of class-based languages can be defined in terms of objects only [8, 7, 1] if classes are viewed as objects with a constructor method. One obtains a store in which m...
Bernhard Reus
CAISE
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ontology Mapping through Analysis of Model Extension
The overall problem addressed in this paper is to improve semantic interoperability in heterogeneous systems. Normally, the semantics of data is carried by ontology (concept model)...
Xiaomeng Su, Terje Brasethvik, Sari Hakkarainen
AGENTCL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Model of Communication in Multiagent Systems
Abstract. This paper proposes a new model of communication in multiagent systems according to which the semantics of communication depends on their pragmatics. Since these pragmati...
Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Wei&sz...
HT
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Finding the story: broader applicability of semantics and discourse for hypermedia generation
Generating hypermedia presentations requires processing constituent material into coherent, unified presentations. One large challenge is creating a generic process for producing ...
Lloyd Rutledge, Martin Alberink, Rogier Brussee, S...
SCAM
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
CPP Denotational Semantics
This paper shows that CPP, the preprocessor of the C language, can be seen as a programming language in which directives are statements, parametrized macros are functions, files a...
Jean-Marie Favre
SFM
2004
Springer
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On the Semantic Foundations of Standard UML 2.0
This paper provides an overview of the foundations of the run-time semantics underlying the Unified Modeling Language as defined in revision 2.0 of the official OMG standard. One o...
Bran Selic
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...
Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan
LPNMR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Semantics for Dynamic Logic Programming: A Principle-Based Approach
Over recent years, various semantics have been proposed for dealing with updates in the setting of logic programs. The availability of different semantics naturally raises the que...
José Júlio Alferes, Federico Banti, ...
KR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Characterization of Semantics for Argument Systems
We consider Dung’s argumentation framework, in which an argument system consists of a set of arguments and a binary relation between arguments representing the notion of a con...
Philippe Besnard, Sylvie Doutre