Among the most important expected benefits of a global service oriented architecture leveraging web service standards is an increased level of automation in the discovery, composit...
Sergey A. Stupnikov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko, St&ea...
Access control mechanisms are widely used with the intent of enforcing confidentiality and other policies, but few formal connections have been made between information flow and...
Within many domains, among which biological and cognitive areas, multiple interacting processes occur among agents with dynamics that are hard to handle. Current approaches to ana...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der ...
Conventional approaches to the modeling of autonomous agents and agent communication rely heavily on the ascription of mental properties like beliefs and intentions to the individ...
Matthias Nickles, Felix A. Fischer, Gerhard Wei&sz...
Abstract. We study entailment of structural and nonstructural recursive subtyping constraints. Constraints are formal inequalities between type expressions, interpreted over an ord...