@article{AlbCheGav08-TOCL-IJ, key = 005, author = {Marco Alberti and Federico Chesani and Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello and Paolo Torroni}, title = {Verifiable Agent Interaction in Abductive Logic Programming: the \emph{S}{CIFF} Framework}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)}, year = 2008, volume = 9, number = 4, issn = { 1529-3785}, abstract = {SCIFF is a framework thought to specify and verify interaction in open agent societies. The SCIFF language is equipped with a semantics based on abductive logic programming; SCIFF's operational component is a new abductive logic programming proof-procedure, also named SCIFF, for reasoning with expectations in dynamic environments. In this paper we present the declarative and operational semantics of the SCIFF language, the termination, soundness and completeness results of the SCIFF proof procedure, and we demonstrate SCIFF's possible application in the multi-agent domain.}, note = {IF: 2.766} }
@article{AlbCheGav08-IJEC-IJ, key = 004, author = {Marco Alberti and Federico Chesani and Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello and Marco Montali and Paolo Torroni}, title = {Expressing and Verifying Business Contracts with Abductive Logic Programming}, journal = {International Journal of Electronic Commerce}, abstract = {In this article, we propose to adopt the SCIFF abductive logic language to specify business contracts, and show how its proof procedures are useful to verify contract execution and fulfilment. SCIFF is a declarative language based on abductive logic programming, which accommodates forward rules, predicate definitions, and constraints over finite domain variables. Its declarative semantics is abductive, and can be related to that of deontic operators; its operational specification is the sound and complete SCIFF proof procedure, defined as a set of transition rules, which has been implemented and integrated into a reasoning and verification tool. A variation of the SCIFF proof-procedure (g-SCIFF) can be used for static verification of contract properties. We demonstrate the use of the SCIFF language for business contract specification and verification, in a concrete scenario. In order to accommodate integration of SCIFF with architectures for business contract, we also propose an encoding of SCIFF contract rules in RuleML. }, issn = {1086-4415}, doi = {10.2753/JEC1086-4415120401}, volume = 12, number = 4, pages = {9--38}, year = 2008, month = {Summer}, keywords = {Abductive logic programming, business contracts, declarative specifications, g-SCIFF, SCIFF, runtime verification, static verification}, note = {IF: 1.366} }
@incollection{AlbCheGav08-RRP-BC, author = {Marco Alberti and Federico Chesani and Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello}, title = {Abduction in the context of a reasoning process: the SCIFF framework}, booktitle = {Reasoning, Rationality and Probability}, publisher = {Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University}, year = 2008, pages = {271--287}, editor = {Maria Carla Galavotti and Roberto Scazzieri and Patrick Suppes}, address = {Stanford, California}, isbn = { 978-157586557-7} }
@inproceedings{MonAlbChe08-ICLP-IC, author = {Marco Montali and Marco Alberti and Federico Chesani and Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello and Paolo Torroni}, title = {Verification from declarative specifications using Logic Programming}, booktitle = {Logic Programming, 24th International Conference, ICLP 2008}, year = 2008, editor = {Maria Garcia de la Banda and Enrico Pontelli}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = 5366, pages = {440-454}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-89982-2_39}, keywords = {Abductive Logic Programming, SCIFF, g-SCIFF, declarative specifications, formal verification, DecSerFlow, business process management}, abstract = {In recent years, the declarative programming philosophy has had a visible impact on new emerging disciplines, such as heterogeneous multi-agent systems and flexible business processes. We address the problem of formal verification for systems specified using declarative languages, focusing in particular on the Business Process Management field. We propose a verification method based on the g-SCIFF abductive logic programming proof procedure and evaluate our method empirically, by comparing its performance with that of other verification frameworks.}, pdf = {http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Research/TechReport/lia08004.pdf}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/26658n2069251841/}, issn = {0302-9743}, isbn = {978-3-540-89981-5} }
@inproceedings{GavAlbLam09-ECAI-IC, author = {Marco Gavanelli and Marco Alberti and Evelina Lamma}, title = {Integrating Abduction and Constraint Optimization in Constraint Handling Rules}, booktitle = {ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2008}, editor = {Malik Ghallab and Constantine D. Spyropoulos and Nikos Fakotakis and Nikos Avouris}, month = {July}, publisher = {IOS press}, pages = {903--904}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-58603-891-5-903}, url = {http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/}, keywords = {Abduction, Constraint Optimization, Logic and Constraint Programming, Logic Programming} }
@inproceedings{AlbCatGav08-SWAP-IW, author = {Marco Alberti and Massimiliano Cattafi and Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma}, title = {Exploiting Semantic Technology in Computational Logic-based Service Contracting}, year = {2008}, editor = {Aldo Gangemi and Johannes Keizer and Valentina Presutti and Heiko Stoermer }, booktitle = {SWAP 2008: 5th workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives}, month = {December}, address = {Rome, Italy}, url = {http://www.swapconf.it/2008/}, series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}, volume = {426}, issn = {1613-0073}, pdf = {http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-426/swap2008_submission_31.pdf}, abstract = {Dynamic composition of web services requires an automated step of contracting, i.e., the computation of a possibly fruitful interaction between two (or more) services, based on their policies and goals. In previous work, the SCIFF abductive logic language was used to represent the services' policies, and the associated proof procedure to perform the contracting. In this paper, we build on that work in order to exploit the results of the Description Logics research area to represent domain specific knowledge, either by importing the knowledge encoded in an ontology into a SCIFF knowledge base, or by interfacing the SCIFF proof procedure to an existing ontological reasoner.}, acceptrate = {25/47}, keywords = {Choreography, Computational Logic, Run-Time Verification, Web Services} }
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