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BCSHCI
2009
14 years 11 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On the role of distances in defining voting rules
A voting rule is an algorithm for determining the winner in an election, and there are several approaches that have been used to justify the proposed rules. One justification is t...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Formalizing organizational constraints: a semantic approach
An organizational modeling language can be used to specify an agent organization in terms of its roles, organizational structure, norms, etc. Such an organizational specification ...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholij...
ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The impact of higher-order state and control effects on local relational reasoning
Reasoning about program equivalence is one of the oldest problems in semantics. In recent years, useful techniques have been developed, based on bisimulations and logical relation...
Derek Dreyer, Georg Neis, Lars Birkedal
ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
VeriML: typed computation of logical terms inside a language with effects
Modern proof assistants such as Coq and Isabelle provide high degrees of expressiveness and assurance because they support formal reasoning in higher-order logic and supply explic...
Antonis Stampoulis, Zhong Shao