In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
This paper concerns the formal semantics of programming languages, and the specification and verification of software. We are interested in the verification of real programs, wr...
Automated negotiation is an important applying field of agent theory and technology. For the current agent theoretical models have some troubles in explaining the agent's nego...
We introduce a language and system that supports definition and composition of complex run-time security policies for Java applications. Our policies are comprised of two sorts o...
Ontologies constitute formal models of some aspect of the world that may be used for drawing interesting logical conclusions even for large models. Software models capture relevant...