systems are commonly abstracted as collections of interacting components. This perspective has lead to the insight that component behaviors can be defined separately from admissi...
A general logical framework is presented to represent speech acts that have institutional effects. It is based on the concepts of the Speech Act Theory and takes the form of the FI...
We aim at an adequate formal description of the dynamics of commitments and trust by transferring insights about actual human practices to a formal setting. Our framework is based ...
Computer software now controls critical systems worldwide. International standards require such programs to be produced from mathematically-precise specifications, but the techniq...
Abstract. We investigate the task of skeptically reasoning in extensionbased, nonmonotonic logics by concentrating on general argumentation theories. The restricted applicability o...