Today's advanced CASE tools, combining the building-block and generative approaches to software reuse, are effective for reuse of software components and procedures in the pr...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...
Several recent security-typed programming languages, such as Aura, PCML5, and Fine, allow programmers to express and enforce access control and information flow policies. Most of ...
The verification of quantitative aspects like performance and dependability by means of model checking has become an important and vivid area of research over the past decade. An ...
Stefan Blom, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Matthias Kunt...
The bipolar view in preference modeling distinguishes between negative and positive preferences. Negative preferences correspond to what is rejected, considered unacceptable, whil...
Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, Souhila Kaci, Henr...