Abstract. One of the most difficult obstacles Web Services have to overcome in the attempt to exploit the true potential of the World Wide Web is heterogeneity. Caused by the natur...
The capability of revising its beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. The classical work in belief revision focuses on i...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...
—We present a new language called Precision Timed C, for predictable and lightweight multithreading in C. PRET-C supports synchronous concurrency, preemption, and a high-level co...
Abstract. Concurrent constraint programming is a simple but powerful framework for computation based on four basic computational ideas: concurrency (multiple agents are simultaneou...