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IWFM
2000
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An Algebraic Basis for Specifying and Enforcing Access Control in Security Systems
Security services in a multi-user environment are often based on access control mechanisms. Static of an access control policy can be formalised using abstract algebraic models. W...
Claus Pahl
IWFM
2000
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Modal Logics for Reasoning about Object-based Component Composition
Component-oriented development of software supports the adaptability and maintainability of large systems, in particular if requirements change over time and parts of a system hav...
Claus Pahl
IWFM
2000
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A Note on the Relationships Between Logic Programs and Neural Networks
Several recent publications have exhibited relationships between the theories of logic programming and of neural networks. We consider a general approach to representing normal lo...
Pascal Hitzler, Anthony Karel Seda
IWFM
2000
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A Comparison of Three Model Checkers Applied to a Distributed Database Problem
ct Increasingly, model checking is being applied to more abstract problem domains than the traditional protocol analysis. The extent to which such an approach is able to provide us...
A. J. Currie
IWFM
1998
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Strictly Level-Decreasing Logic Programs
We study strictly level-decreasing logic programs (sld-programs) as defined earlier by the present authors. It will be seen that sld-programs, unlike most other classes of logic p...
Anthony Karel Seda, Pascal Hitzler
IWFM
1998
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Facilitating Modular Property-Preserving Extensions of Programming Languages
We will explore an approach to modular programming language descriptions and extensions in a denotational style. Based on a language core, language features are added stepwise on ...
Claus Pahl
IWFM
1998
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Translating Structured Database Schemas into Abstract Machines
ing Structured Database Schemas into Abstract Machines Brian Matthews Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OXON, OX11 OQX, U.K. Elvira Locuratolo Istituto di Elaborazione dell&#...
Brian Matthews, Elvira Locuratolo
IWFM
1998
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A Case Study on Proving Transformations Correct: Data-Parallel Conversion
The issue of correctness in the context of a certain style of program transformation is investigated. This style is characterised by the fully automated application of large numbe...
Stephen Kilpatrick, Maurice Clint, Peter Kilpatric...