The benefits of modular representations arc well known from many areas of computer science. In this paper, we concentrate on the benefits of modular ontologies with respect to loc...
Automated verification is one of the most success ful applications of automated reasoning in com puter science. In automated verification one uses algorithmic techniques to es...
This paper studies the dynamics of agent mediated combinatorial trading at the macroscopic level. The combinatorial marketplace consists of a retailer who wishes to sell bundles o...
New methods and new systems are needed to lter or to selectively distribute the increasing volume of electronic informationbeing produced nowadays. An e ective information ltering...
The paper describes a transition logic, TL, and a deductive formalism for it. It shows how various important aspects (such as ramification, qualification, specificity, simultaneit...