We develop a probabilistic criterion for belief expansion that is sensitive to the degree of contextual fit of the new information to our belief set as well as to the reliability...
Abstract Designing and maintaining a distributed system requires consideration of dependencies and invariants in the system's model. This paper suggests expressing distributio...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
In this paper we propose a new approach to web visualisation with VRML based on a function-based shape modelling, which unifies different types of mathematical functions in order ...
Code model checking of software components suffers from the well-known problem of state explosion when applied to highly parallel components, despite the fact that a single compon...