The eld of theory update has seen some improvement, in what regards updating, by allowing desired updates to be speci ed by update programs. The updating of models is governed by ...
We give a denotational semantics to a type and effect system tracking reading and writing to global variables holding values that may include higher-order effectful functions. Reļ...
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Lennart Beringer, Mar...
Programming in an open environment remains challenging because it requires combining modularity, security, concurrency, distribution, and dynamicity. In this paper, we propose an ...
Michael Lienhardt, Alan Schmitt, Jean-Bernard Stef...
This paper addresses the notion of declarative goals as used in agent programming. Declarative goals describe desirable states, and semantics of these goals in an agent programmin...
Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch....
Gelfond and Lifschitz introduce a declarative language A for describing effects of actions and define a translation of theories in this language into extended logic programs(ELP, ...