The growing importance of access control has led to the definition of numerous languages for specifying policies. Since these languages are based on different foundations, langua...
In this paper, we consider existing approaches to ontology definition and validation. Popular techniques include the use of domain experts or reliance on formal logic. We consider...
This paper discusses a general architecture for intelligent software agents. It can be used to construct agents that engage in high-level reasoning by employing standard reasoning...
Mengqiu Wang, Martin K. Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawsk...
Abstract. As part of a larger project, we have built a declarative assembly language that enables us to specify multiple code paths to compute particular quantities, giving the ins...
Wolfram Kahl, Christopher Kumar Anand, Jacques Car...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...