Ontologies play an important role in inter-agent communication, by providing the definitions of the vocabularies used by agents to describe the world [4]. An agent can use such a vocabulary to express its beliefs and actions, and so communicate about them. Ontologies contribute to semantic interoperability when agents are embedded in open, dynamic environments, such as the Web and its proposed ...

The chapter presents a process for security requirements elicitation and analysis, based around the construction of a satisfaction argument for the security of a system. The process starts with the enumeration of security goals based on assets in the system, then uses these goals to derive security requirements in the form of constraints. Next, a satisfaction argument for the system is construc...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, families are having to coordinate their behaviors face new challenges, such as negotiating social distancing measures that family will or not take in daily interaction. This study utilizes Family Communication Patterns Theory examine conversations young adults reported with members about and what factors predicted outcomes of these disagreements. A family’s level con...

I reflect on an argument with a friend, “S,” who also struggles depression. In examining my formalization of S’s argument, claim, we may discern the structure depressive thought. observing what is missing from this structure, identify depression tends to hide depressed persons and what, more broadly, it compel them. argue for redescription thinking in terms two compulsions: 1) perceive absolute...