In order to check whether an open system satisfies a desired property, we need to check the behavior of the system with respect to an arbitrary environment. In the most general se...
Abstract. A circular-arc model (C, A) is a circle C together with a collection A of arcs of C. If A satisfies the Helly Property then (C, A) is a Helly circular-arc model. A (Helly...
Templates are a powerful but poorly understood feature of the C++ language. Their syntax resembles the parameterized classes of other languages (e.g., of Java). But because C++ sup...
Coalgebras provide a uniform framework for the semantics of a large class of (mostly non-normal) modal logics, including e.g. monotone modal logic, probabilistic and graded modal l...
The role that design by contract plays in the specification, monitoring, and reuse of classes is of increasing importance in the OO community. Although recognizably useful, neverth...