Abstract. According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communicati...
Abstract. Over the last decade there has been a shift from "data-aware" information systems to "process-aware" information systems. To support business processe...
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) ostensibly assumes a four level (meta) modelling framework, both for its definition and for the conceptual context in which its users operate. ...
In this paper, we study the retrieval problem in ALN, which is a tractable concept language with number restrictions. Following the approach proposed in [12], this work differs fr...
: Retrenchment is introduced as a liberalisation of refinement intended to address some of the shortcomings of refinement as sole means of progressing from simple abstract models t...