The emerging service grids bring together various distributed application-level services to a `market' for clients to request and enable the integration of services across di...
Hai Jin, Hanhua Chen, Jian Chen, Ping Kuang, Li Qi...
ORM (Object-Role Modeling) is a rich and well-known conceptual modeling method. As ORM has a formal semantics, reasoning tasks such as satisfiability checking of an ORM schema natu...
In recent papers, the partial order reduction approach has been adapted to reason about the probabilities for temporal properties in concurrent systems with probabilistic behaviour...
Use Cases are a wide-spread informal method for specifying the requirements of a technical system in the early development phase. Z is a formal notation which aims to support, bes...
The authors have proposed using category-theoretic sketches to enhance database design and integration methodologies. The algebraic context is called the Sketch Data Model (SkDM) a...