The premises of this paper are 1) security is application dependent because application semantics directly influence proper protection; but 2) applications are generally too compl...
Petri Nets and higher order versions like Predicate Transition Nets (Pr/T-Nets) are very suitable for modeling event-oriented discrete and even parallel systems. Obviously, the ne...
This paper presents a logic, called BOTL (Object-Based Temporal Logic), that facilitates the specification of dynamic and static properties of object-based systems. The logic is ba...
The issue of correctness in the context of a certain style of program transformation is investigated. This style is characterised by the fully automated application of large numbe...
Stephen Kilpatrick, Maurice Clint, Peter Kilpatric...
This paper presents an approach for the specification and implementation of business contracts needed for Business-to-Business (B2B) services. We first examine typical elements of...
Andrew Goodchild, Charles Herring, Zoran Milosevic