It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
We describe a system for specifying the effects of actions. Unlike those commonly used in AI planning, our system uses an action description language that allows one to specify t...
To avoid receiving incorrect arguments, a method specifies the expected type of each formal parameter. However, some parameter types are too general and have subtypes that the me...
Standard ML employs an opaque (or generative) semantics of datatypes, in which every datatype declaration produces a new type that is different from any other type, including othe...
Joseph Vanderwaart, Derek Dreyer, Leaf Petersen, K...
We explain the raison d’ˆetre and basic ideas of input/output logic, sketching the central elements with pointers to other publications for detailed developments. The motivation...