A key challenge for agent architectures and programming paradigms is to account for defeasible reasoning over mental attitudes and to provide associated conflict resolution mechan...
Abstract. Content-based Publish/Subscribe (CPS) is a powerful paradigm providing loosely-coupled, event-driven messaging services. Although the general CPS model is well-known, man...
Abstract. The creation of distributed applications requires sophisticated compositions, as various components — supporting application logic or non-functional requirements — mu...
While the Semantic Web requires a large amount of structured knowledge (triples) to allow machine reasoning, the acquisition of this knowledge still represents an open issue. Indee...
Abstract. We present an approach for the verication of spatial properties with Spin. We rst extend one of Spin's main property specication mechanisms, i.e., the linear-time...