: We investigate behavioral institutions and refinements in the context of the object oriented paradigm. The novelty of our approach is the application of generalized abstract alge...
This paper presents techniques for applying a finite relational model finder to logical specifications that involve (co)inductive predicates, (co)algebraic datatypes, and (co)re...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
We give a polymorphic account of the relational algebra. We introduce a formalism of \type formulas" speci cally tuned for relational algebra expressions, and present an algo...