We analyze the notion of “local names” in SPKI/SDSI. By interpreting local names as distributed groups, we develop a simple logic program for SPKI/SDSI’s linked localname sc...
This article addresses collaborative learning in a multiagent system: each agent revises incrementally its beliefs B (a concept representation) to keep it consistent with the whol...
Gauvain Bourgne, Dominique Bouthinon, Amal El Fall...
In order for ontologies to be broadly useful to the scientific community, they need to capture knowledge and expertise of multiple experts and research groups. Consequently, the ...
Jie Bao, Zhiliang Hu, Doina Caragea, James Reecy, ...
This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligatio...
Retrieving images from very large collections, using image content as a key, is becoming an important problem. Users prefer to ask for pictures using notions of content that are st...
David A. Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Thomas K. Leung,...