After brie y reviewing the basic notions and terminology of active rules and relating them to production rules and deductive rules, respectively, we survey a number of formal appro...
Traditional object-oriented programming languages can be difficult to use when working with ontologies, leading to the creation of domain-specific languages designed specifically...
Vangelis Vassiliadis, Jan Wielemaker, Chris Mungal...
with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...
The understanding of Semantic Web documents is built upon ontologies that define concepts and relationships of data. Hence, the correctness of ontologies is vital. Ontology reason...
Jin Song Dong, Chew Hung Lee, Hian Beng Lee, Yuan-...
A variant of Rate Transition Systems (RTS), proposed by Klin and Sassone, is introduced and used as the basic model for defining stochastic behaviour of processes. The transition r...
Rocco De Nicola, Diego Latella, Michele Loreti, Mi...