: We concentrate on two major aspects of reactive system design: behavior control and modularity. These are studied from a formal point of view, within the framework of action syst...
In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
A top-down query processing method for first order deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics (DWFS) is presented. The method is based upon a characterisation...
This paper discusses the implementation of optimizaiion based DSSs. A n approach is proposed that will enable OR/MS analysts to develop this kind of system much more eociently tha...
This paper describes a method for synthesizing images that match the texture appearanceof a given digitized sample. This synthesisis completely automatic and requires only the “...