Abstract. We provide a framework for distributed systems that impose timing constraints on their executions. We propose a timed model of communicating finite-state machines, which...
CooML is an object-oriented modeling language where specifications are theories in a constructive logic designed to handle incomplete information. In this logic we view snapshots ...
Mauro Ferrari, Camillo Fiorentini, Alberto Momigli...
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...
In a previous paper [BMR01], the authors showed that the mechanism underlying Logic Programming can be extended to handle the situation where the atoms are interpreted as subsets o...
Howard A. Blair, Victor W. Marek, Jeffrey B. Remme...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between two prioritized knowledge bases by measuring both the conflict and the agreement between them. First of all, a quantity of co...