One of the more tedious and complex tasks during the specification of conceptual schemas (CSs) is modeling the operations that define the system behavior. This paper aims to simpl...
This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
A new formalism and approach to describing cellular and molecular processes and structures is introduced, designed to support the creation of knowledge bases of molecular and cell...
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...
We present one way of combining a logical framework and first-order logic. The logical framework is used as an interface to a first-order theorem prover. Its main purpose is to k...