Abstract. We provide a formal characterization of a notion of contextual taxonomy, that is to say, a taxonomy holding only with respect to a specific context. To this aim, a new pr...
In this paper we give a formal description of the parsing model that underlies the treatment of Long Distance Dependencies, Topic and Focus, Ellipsis and Quantification in, amongs...
In the context of large scale industrial installations, model checking often fails to tap its full potential because of a missing link between a system’s specification and its f...
Abstract. In this paper we focus on the problem of testing agent programs written in BUpL, an executable, high-level modelling agent language. Our approach consists of two main ste...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, M. Birn...
We introduce transactors, a fault-tolerant programming model for composing loosely-coupled distributed components running in an unreliable environment such as the internet into sy...