The importance of defining a standard framework for agent communication languages (ACL) with a simple, clear, and a verifiable semantics has been widely recognized. This paper pro...
Abstract. There are two main traditions in defining a semantics for agent communication languages, based either on mental attitudes or on social commitments. In this paper, we tran...
The difficulty of efficiently reordering the rules in an Access Control List is considered and the essential optimisation problem formulated. The complexity of exact and sophistic...
We describe a link between the ACL2 and HOL mechanical proof assistants that enables the strengths of each system to be deployed smoothly within a single formal development. Severa...
Michael J. C. Gordon, James Reynolds, Warren A. Hu...