We have developed a general denition of segregation in the context of Z system specications. This denition is general enough to allow multi-way communications between otherwise seg...
The purpose is to explore how norm-governed behavior within agent societies can be achieved in the context of Virtual Enterprises. We analyze a number of formal models from the age...
Linguistics has always been a field with a great diversity of schools and sub-schools. This has naturally led to the question of whether different grammatical analyses of the sam...
In this paper we present an algorithm for automatic extraction of system behavior from a structural Verilog specification. The algorithm generates a series-parallel poset expressi...
In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a negotiation protocol (NP0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a pe...