The paper uses the formalism of indexed categories to recover the proof of a standard final coalgebra theorem, thus showing existence of final coalgebras for a special class of ...
The correctness of the Z semantics of OWL is the theoretical foundation of using software engineering techniques to verify Web ontologies. As OWL and Z are based on different logi...
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling languag...
Component adaptation is widely recognised to be one of the crucial problems in Component-Based Software Engineering. The objective of this paper is to set a formal foundation for t...
Abstract. Business Process Management (BPM) includes methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business processes. It...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede...