This article reviews formal systems that regulate persuasion dialogues. In such dialogues two or more participants aim to resolve a difference of opinion, each trying to persuade ...
We present a formal specification and verification approach for industrial product data bases containing Boolean logic formulae to express constraints. Within this framework, globa...
Various forms of assumption/commitment specifications have been used to specify and reason about the interference that comes from concurrent execution; in particular, consistent a...
Real-Time Logic is a formal notation for reasoning about temporal behaviour. Z is a general purpose specification language, but lacks explicit features for expressing real-time co...
Maude is an executable rewriting logic language specially well suited for the specification of object-oriented open and distributed systems. In this paper we explore the possibilit...