Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature mak...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Nested datatypes are families of datatypes that are indexed over all types and where the datatype constructors relate different members of the family. This may be used to represent...
We present the -calculus, a process calculus for formally modeling and reasoning about Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (MANETs) and their protocols. The -calculus naturally capture...