Knowledge representation languages that combine rules with object-oriented features akin to frame systems have recently attracted a lot of research interest, and F-logic is widely ...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
The relational data model is based on sets of tuples, i.e. it does not allow duplicate tuples in a relation. Many database languages and systems do require multi-set place, the hi...
Abstract. Abstraction is essential in the formal specification of programs. A common way of writing abstract specifications is to specify implementations in terms of basic mathem...
The aim of requirements-based testing is to generate test cases from a set of requirements for a given system or piece of software. In this paper we propose a formal semantics for...