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...
When knowledge systems are deployed into a real-world application, then the maintenance and the refinement of the knowledge are essential tasks. Many existing automatic knowledge ...
With the emergence of applications that require content-based similarity retrieval, techniques to support such a retrieval paradigm over database systems have emerged as a critica...
Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Kaushik Chakrabarti, ...
The ForSyDe methodology has been developed for system level design. In this paper we present formal transformation methods for the refinement of an abstract and formal system mode...
The Maille Authorization protocol provides flexible and reliable authorization in large distributed and pervasive computing systems. Service owners distribute their access control...