It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...
Abstract. During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems have been developed. Characteristic for knowledge-based systems are a comple...
Pascal van Eck, Joeri Engelfriet, Dieter Fensel, F...
This paper introduces the controlled natural language PENG Light together with a language processor that is based on a bidirectional grammar. The language processor has the followi...
SPKI/SDSI is a language for expressing distributed access control policy, derived from SPKI and SDSI. We provide a first-order logic (FOL) semantics for SDSI, and show that it ha...
We propose a two-pha.se algorithm for physical database design. In phase one the algorithm, for each logical query, losesrules to determine characteristics of a physical design (s...