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AMAST
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Modularity and the Rule of Adaptation
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,...
Cees Pierik, Frank S. de Boer
CIA
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism
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...
Nir Oren, Alun D. Preece, Timothy J. Norman
ESOA
2006
15 years 11 months ago
An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems
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...
EUROSSC
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Visual Surveillance with Distributed Cameras
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...
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FMCAD
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Thorough Checking Revisited
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...
Shiva Nejati, Mihaela Gheorghiu, Marsha Chechik