Intelligent agents embedded in physical environments need ity to connect, or anchor, the symbols used to perform abstract reasoning to the physical entities which these symbols ref...
We propose a type system for lock-freedom in the -calculus, which guarantees that certain communications will eventually succeed. Distinguishing features of our type system are: it...
In requirements elicitation, different stakeholders often hold different views of how a proposed system should behave, resulting in inconsistencies between their descriptions. Con...
We develop an explicit two level system that allows programmers to reason about the behavior of effectful programs. The first level is an ordinary ML-style type system, which conf...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....