With current trends towards moving variability from hardware to software, and given the increasing desire to postpone design decisions as much as is economically feasible, managin...
Rabih Bashroush, Ivor T. A. Spence, Peter Kilpatri...
The novel context of accessing and querying large data repositories through ontologies that are formalized in terms of expressive DLs requires on the one hand to consider query an...
This paper is concerned with the mathematics and formal specification of "set-like" operations for the mixed dimension cellular objects of the Djinn Application Programm...
Alan E. Middleditch, Chris Reade, Abel J. P. Gomes
Conventional specifications for object-oriented (OO) programs must adhere to behavioral subtyping in support of class inheritance and method overriding. However, this requirement ...
Wei-Ngan Chin, Cristina David, Huu Hai Nguyen, She...
This paper discusses highly general mechanisms for specifying the refinement of a real-time system as a collection of lower level parallel components that preserve the timing and ...
Paul Z. Kolano, Carlo A. Furia, Richard A. Kemmere...