This paper presents a new rule for reasoning about method calls in object-oriented programs. It is an adaptation of Hoare's rule of adaptation to the object-oriented paradigm,...
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. In such systems, agents have to be able to self-organize to satisfy their goals. Our w...
Sebastian Rodriguez, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire...
Abstract. This paper presents a surveillance system for tracking multiple people through a wide area with sparsely distributed cameras. The computational core of the system is an a...
Wojciech Zajdel, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Ben J. A. Kr&o...
Recent years have seen a proliferation of 3-valued or capturing abstractions of systems, since these enable verifying both universal and existential properties. Reasoning about suc...