We present a model checking technique for security protocols based on a reduction to propositional logic. At the core of our approach is a procedure that, given a description of th...
In human social interaction, the notions of commitment and trust are strongly interrelated. A formal model for this interrelation will enable artificial agents to benefit from the...
The subject of research in this paper is RM-ODP, an ISO/ITU-T international standard. We investigate an important challenge that the standard faces, specifically the absence of a ...
This paper presents an alternative to the `speech acts with STRIPS' approach to implementing dialogue: a fully implemented AI planner which generates and analyses the semantic...
Simultaneous switching noise (SSN) has become an important issue in the design of the internal on-chip power distribution networks in current very large scale integration/ultra lar...