The need for a design language that is rigorous but accessible and intuitive is often at odds with the formal and mathematical nature of languages used for analysis. UML and Petri ...
Abstract. The Meta Object Facility (MOF) 2.0 and the Unified Modeling Language Infrastructure introduce new language features such as subsets, (derived) unions and redefinitions, b...
Ontologies and reasoning are the key terms brought into focus by the semantic web community. Formal representation of ontologies in a common data model on the web can be taken as a...
IDS research still needs to strengthen mathematical foundations and theoretic guidelines. In this paper, we build a formal framework, based on information theory, for analyzing and...
Guofei Gu, Prahlad Fogla, David Dagon, Wenke Lee, ...
The methodology of aspect-oriented software engineering has been proposed to factor out concerns that are orthogonal to the core functionality of a system. In particular, this is a...