Abstract. We describe a model-checking based approach to verification of programs written in the agent programming language Dribble. We define a logic (an extension of the branch...
We present a connectionist architecture that supports almost instantaneous deductive and abductive reasoning. The deduction algorithm responds in few steps for single rule queries...
Current collaborative work environments are characterized by dynamically changing organizational structures. Although there have been several efforts to refine work distribution, ...
Inferences about speech acts are often conditional, nonmonotonic, and involve the issue of time. Most agent communication languages, however, ignore these issues, due to the dif...
The syntactic approach to epistemic logic avoids the logical omniscience problem by taking knowledge as primary rather than as defined in terms of possible worlds. In this study, ...