This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design...
In order to regulate different circumstances over an extensive period of time, norms in institutions are stated in a vague and biguous manner, thereby abstracting from concrete as...
Chaotic iteration sequences is a method for approximating fixpoints of monotonic functions proposed by Patrick and Radhia Cousot. It may be used in specialisation algorithms for ...
In this paper, we view planning as a special case of reasoning about indefinite actions. We treat actions as predicates defined over a linear temporal order. This formalism permit...
Distributed computing is increasingly important at a time when the doubling of the number of transistors on a processor every 18 months no longer translates in a doubling of speed ...