A number of agent-oriented programming systems are based on a framework of beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI) and more explicitly on the BDI logic of Rao and Georgeff. In this ...
predicate abstraction Shuvendu K. Lahiri and Shaz Qadeer Microsoft Research In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic complexity of various predicate abstraction problems relati...
Embedded devices like smart cards can now run multiple interacting applications. A particular challenge in this domain is to dynamically integrate diverse security policies. In th...
We show how to reason about “step-indexed” logitions in an abstract way, avoiding the tedious, error-prone, and proof-obscuring step-index arithmetic that seems superficially...
The event calculus is a logic programming formalism for representing events and their effects especially in database applications. This paper presents the use of the event calculus...