A major research goal for compilers and environments is the automatic derivation of tools from formal specifications. However, the formal model of the language is often inadequat...
Angelic nondeterminism can play an important role in program development. It simplifies specifications, for example in deriving programs with a refinement calculus; it is the form...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Knowledge Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the managementof large volumes of metadata, i.e., information describing the available ...
Gregory Karvounarakis, Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Chr...
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is a promising paradigm for development. It raises the level of abstraction in software development by treating models as primary artifacts. The prac...