Context-free grammars cannot be identified in the limit from positive examples (Gold, 1967), yet natural language grammars are more powerful than context-free grammars and humans ...
Tim Oates, Tom Armstrong, Justin Harris, Mark Nejm...
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
We reflect on our experiences from work on the design and semantic underpinnings of Extended ML, a specification language which supports the specification and formal development o...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) started fifteen years ago with the remark that modularization of so-called crosscutting functionalities is a fundamental problem for the enginee...
In this paper we investigate the addition of first-class relationships to a prototypical object-oriented programming language (a “middleweight” fragment of Java). We provide ...