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FM
2003
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Semantic Foundation for TCOZ in Unifying Theories of Programming
Abstract. UnifyingTheoriesofProgramming(UTP)canprovideaformalsemantic foundation not only for programming languages but also for more expressive specification languages. We believ...
Shengchao Qin, Jin Song Dong, Wei-Ngan Chin
ICLP
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Logic Programming with Defaults and Argumentation Theories
We define logic programs with defaults and argumentation theories, a new framework that unifies most of the earlier proposals for defeasible reasoning in logic programming. We pres...
Hui Wan, Benjamin N. Grosof, Michael Kifer, Paul F...
POPL
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Algebraic foundations for effect-dependent optimisations
We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...
Ohad Kammar, Gordon D. Plotkin
JLP
2011
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12 years 6 months ago
Concurrent Kleene Algebra and its Foundations
A Concurrent Kleene Algebra offers two composition operators, related by a weak version of an exchange law: when applied in a trace model of program semantics, one of them stands...
Tony Hoare, Bernhard Möller, Georg Struth, Ia...
DBPL
2003
Springer
120views Database» more  DBPL 2003»
13 years 8 months ago
A Unifying Semantics for Active Databases Using Non-Markovian Theories of Actions
Over the last fifteen years, database management systems (DBMSs) have been enhanced by the addition of rule-based programming to obtain active DBMSs. One of the greatest challeng...
Iluju Kiringa, Raymond Reiter