Abstract. This paper uses a framework drawn from work in the philosophy of science to characterize the concepts of program correctness that have been used in software engineering, ...
Abstract This paper describes a generic compiler, called plp, for translating ordered logic programs into standard logic programs under the answer set semantics. In an ordered logi...
In this paper, we describe a proof-theoretic foundation for bottom-up logic programming based on uniform proofs in the setting of the logical framework LF. We present a forward un...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
We show that any institution I satisfying some reasonable conditions can be transformed into another institution, Ibeh, which captures formally and abstractly the intuitions of add...