What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Model checking is a promising technology, which has been applied for verification of many hardware and software systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of model update to...
With the increasing importance of the World Wide Web as an information source, there is a growing interest for integration of Web and database technology. Several Web query languag...
The Semantic Web vision aims to integrate and convert the vast amount of information available on the Internet into a machine-understandable network. The objective is to promote kn...
Abstract. We present a technique and a tool for model-checking operational UML models based on a mapping of object oriented UML models into a framework of communicating extended ti...