Abstract. We describe the instance store, a system for reasoning about individuals (i.e., instances of classes) in OWL ontologies. By using a hybrid reasoner/database architecture,...
Timed-trace formalisms have emerged as a powerful method for specifying and reasoning about concurrent real-time systems. We present a simple variant which builds methodically on s...
Colin J. Fidge, Ian J. Hayes, A. P. Martin, Axel W...
Probabilistic reasoning with multiply sectioned Bayesian networks (MSBNs) has been successfully applied in static domains under the cooperative multiagent paradigm. Probabilistic ...
Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....