We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
The Unified Modeling Language UML is well-suited for the design of real-time systems. In particular, the design of dynamic system behaviors is supported by interaction diagrams an...
In this paper we consider three di erent kinds of domain dependent control knowledge (temporal, procedural and HTN-based) that are useful in planning. Our approach is declarative ...
Tran Cao Son, Chitta Baral, Tran Hoai Nam, Sheila ...
We present a semi-automated approach, Secoria, for analyzing a security runtime architecture for security and for conformance to an object-oriented implementation. Typecheckable a...
The work in this paper is directed towards sophisticated formalisms for reasoning under probabilistic uncertainty in ontologies in the Semantic Web. Ontologies play a central role...