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ENTCS
2000
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A Space Semantics for Core Haskell
Haskell currently lacks a standard operational semantics. We argue that such a semantics should be provided to enable reasoning about operational properties of programs, to ensure...
Adam Bakewell, Colin Runciman
CORR
2000
Springer
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Uniform semantic treatment of default and autoepistemic logics
We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general seman...
Marc Denecker, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
CI
2002
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Negotiating the Semantics of Agent Communication Languages
This paper presents a formal framework and outlines a method that autonomous agents can use to negotiate the semantics of their communication language at run-time. Such an ability...
Chris Reed, Timothy J. Norman, Nicholas R. Jenning...
AAMAS
2000
Springer
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Semantic Issues in the Verification of Agent Communication Languages
This article examines the issue of developing semantics for agent communication languages. In particular, it considers the problem of giving a
Michael Wooldridge
APAL
2002
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The logic of tasks
The paper introduces a semantics for the language of classical first order logic supplemented with the additional operators and . This semantics understands formulas as tasks. An ...
Giorgi Japaridze
APAL
2004
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First-order intensional logic
First-order modal logic is very much under current development, with many different semantics proposed. The use of rigid objects goes back to Saul Kripke. More recently several se...
Melvin Fitting
AI
2002
Springer
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On the computational complexity of assumption-based argumentation for default reasoning
ko et al. have recently proposed an abstract framework for default reasoning. Besides capturing most existing formalisms and proving that their standard semantics all coincide, th...
Yannis Dimopoulos, Bernhard Nebel, Francesca Toni
WS
2008
ACM
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Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
: The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, mu...
James A. Hendler, Jennifer Golbeck
VLC
2008
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Enforced generative patterns for the specification of the syntax and semantics of visual languages
We present the new notion of enforced generative pattern, a structure that declares positive or negative conditions that must be satisfied by a model. Patterns are applied to tran...
Paolo Bottoni, Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara
JUCS
2007
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Using Visitor Patterns in Object-Oriented Action Semantics
Abstract: Object-Oriented Action Semantics is a semantic framework for the definition of programming languages. The framework incorporates some object-oriented concepts to the Act...
André Murbach Maidl, Cláudio Carvilh...