We present an extension of state-based planning from traditional Strips to function application, allowing to express operator effects as updates. As proposed in PDDL, fluent variab...
This paper discusses differences in the semantics of various semaphore implementations and their ramifications in developing solutions to synchronization problems. An approach is ...
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
Abstract. In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general object-oriented m...
: Narrowing the wide conceptual gap between problem and implementation domains is considered a significant factor within software engineering. Currently, such a relation is often o...