This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
This paper addresses the verification of properties of imperative programs with recursive procedure calls, heap-allocated storage, and destructive updating of pointer-valued fiel...
Bertrand Jeannet, Alexey Loginov, Thomas W. Reps, ...
An object-oriented approach to program specification and verification was developed by Ole-Johan Dahl with the long-term Abel project. Essential here was the idea of reasoning abou...
We consider the challenge of preference elicitation in systems that help users discover the most desirable item(s) within a given database. Past work on preference elicitation foc...
In open environments in which autonomous agents can break contracts, computational models of trust have an important role to play in determining who to interact with and how inter...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carle...