The use of ontologies in various application domains, such as Data Integration, the Semantic Web, or ontology-based data management, where ontologies provide the access to large a...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...
The probability theory is a well-studied branch of mathematics, in order to carry out formal reasoning about probability. Thus, it is important to have a logic, both for computati...
We study xpoints of operators on lattices. To this end we introduce the notion of an approximation of an operator. We order approximations by means of a precision ordering. We sho...
Marc Denecker, V. Wiktor Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
Software systems are often model checked by translating them into a directly model-checkable formalism. Any serious software system requires application of compositional reasoning ...
As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to syste...