Abstract. A mathematical semantics is proposed for the notion of architectural connector, in the style defined by Allen and Garlan, that builds on Goguen’s categorical approach t...
A local spatial context is an area currently under consideration in a spatial reasoning process. The boundary between this area and the surrounding space together with the spatial...
McLean's notion of Selective Interleaving Functions (SIFs) is perhaps the bestknown attempt to construct a framework for expressing various security properties. We examine th...
We define the notions of Azumaya category and Brauer group in category theory enriched over some very general base category V. We prove the equivalence of various definitions, in ...
Independence--the study of what is relevant to a given problem of reasoning--is an important AI topic. In this paper, we investigate several notions of conditional independence in...