We present a general theory for the use of negative premises in the rules of Transition System Specifications (TSSs). We formulate a criterion that should be satisfied by a TSS in ...
Abstract: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning can be greatly improved if metric information can be represented and reasoning can be performed on it; moreover, modelling vagueness and unc...
Existing hierarchical summarization techniques fail to provide synopses good in terms of relative-error metrics. This paper introduces multiplicative synopses: a summarization par...
We give semantic characterizations of the expressive power of navigational XPath (also called Core XPath) in terms of first order logic. XPath can be used to specify sets of nodes...
Complex software systems typically involve features like time, concurrency and probability, where probabilistic computations play an increasing role. It is challenging to formaliz...
Huibiao Zhu, Shengchao Qin, Jifeng He, Jonathan P....