Abstract. This paper presents the basis of Property Grammars, a fully constraintbased theory. In this approach, all kinds of linguistic information is represented by means of const...
Today many formalisms exist for specifying complex Markov chains. In contrast, formalism for specifying the quantitative properties to analyze have remained quite primitive. In th...
Real-Time Logic is a formal notation for reasoning about temporal behaviour. Z is a general purpose specification language, but lacks explicit features for expressing real-time co...
Modern database systems provide not only powerful data models but also complex query languages supporting powerful features such as the ability to create new database objects and ...
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...