Connectors have emerged as a powerful concept for composition and coordination of concurrent activities encapsulated as components and services. Compositional coordination models a...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Sun Meng, Young-Joo Moo...
In this paper, we describe an approach to formally assess whether an organization conforms to a body of regulation. Conformance is cast as a model checking question where the regul...
Nikhil Dinesh, Aravind K. Joshi, Insup Lee, Oleg S...
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie, J...
We present a proof of concept system to represent and reason about hockey play. The system takes as input player motion trajectory data tracked from game video and supported by kn...
We introduce the Multiagent Agreement Problem (MAP) to represent a class of multiagent scheduling problems. MAP is based on the Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) paradigm and...