Abstract. Recently, component-based application developments to improve the software productivity and reusability have attracted our attention. The components are parts for buildin...
Abstract. Just as cooperation in multi-agent systems is a central issue for solving complex tasks, so too is the ability for an intelligent agent to reason about combined knowledge...
: Automated deduction systems can considerably be improved by replacing axioms with special purpose inference mechanisms. For example replacing in resolution based systems certain ...
Model checking tools based on the iterative refinement of predicate abstraction (e.g., Slam and Blast) often feature a specification language for expressing complex behavior rules....
Abstract. Membership queries are basic predicate operations that apply to datasets. Quantifications of such queries express global properties between datasets, including subset inc...