Commitments provide a flexible means for specifying the business relationships among autonomous and heterogeneous agents, and lead to a natural way of enacting such relationships...
Abstract. This paper uses a framework drawn from work in the philosophy of science to characterize the concepts of program correctness that have been used in software engineering, ...
Abstract. We present a new generic problem solving approach for overconstrained problems based on Max-SAT. We first define a clausal form formalism that deals with blocks of clau...
This paper reports on the preparation of test cases using a prototype within the context of a formal development. It describes an approach to building a prototype using an example....
The paper proposes a formal analysis of the ascriptive view of norms as resulting from pulling together Anderson's reductionist approach, the analysis of counts-as, and a nove...