Object-orientation supports code reuse and incremental programming. Multiple inheritance increases the power of code reuse, but complicates the binding of method calls and thereby ...
Johan Dovland, Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Mart...
Abstract. We present a compositional theory of system verification, where specifications assign real-numbered costs to systems. These costs can express a wide variety of quantita...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faell...
Fagin, Halpern, Moses, and Vardi have proposed a framework of epistemic agents with multiple “frames of mind” (local-reasoning structures), to solve problems concerning incons...
Automated negotiation by software agents is a key enabling technology for agent mediated e-commerce. To this end, this paper considers an important class of such negotiations — ...
In this paper we focus on the problem of how infinite belief hierarchies can be represented and reasoned with in a computationally tractable way. When modeling nested beliefs one ...