We propose pattern matching calculi as a refinement of λ-calculus that integrates mechanisms appropriate for fine-grained modelling of non-strict pattern matching. Compared with...
Often a set of imperatives or norms seems satisfiable from the outset, but conflicts arise when ways to fulfill all are ruled out by unfortunate circumstances. Semantic methods to ...
Abstract. Action refinement in process algebras has been widely studied in the last few years as a means to support top-down design of systems. A specific notion of refinement aris...
We present a novel approach for the automatic generation of model-to-model transformations given a description of the operational semantics of the source language by means of graph...
Abstract. In distributed computer systems, it is possible that the evaluation of an authorization policy may suffer unexpected failures, perhaps because a sub-policy cannot be eval...