Commitments model important aspects of agent interactions, especially those arising in e-business. A small number of patterns of commitments accommodate a variety of realistic int...
Abstract-- We consider a hybrid knowledge representation system for ontological knowledge bases in order to maintain knowledge consistency between taxonomic knowledge and assertion...
Abstract. We apply model checking of knowledge properties to the design of distributed controllers that enforce global constraints on concurrent systems. We calculate when processe...
We describe an efficient decentralized monitoring algorithm that monitors a distributed program's execution to check for violations of safety properties. The monitoring is ba...
Koushik Sen, Abhay Vardhan, Gul Agha, Grigore Rosu
This paper discusses a model-based design flow for requirements in distributed embedded software development. Such requirements are specified using a language similar to Linear T...
Luciano Lavagno, Marco Di Natale, Alberto Ferrari,...