Abstract. We associate optimality theory with abduction and preference handling. We present linguistic problems that appear in the study of dialects as new application of abduction...
With the advent of wide security platforms able to express simultaneously all the policies comprising an organization's global security policy, the problem of inconsistencies...
Carlos Ribeiro, Andre Zuquete, Paulo Ferreira, Pau...
Abstract. We describe a symbolic heap abstraction that unifies reasoning about arrays, pointers, and scalars, and we define a fluid update operation on this symbolic heap that rela...
Since its formalization RBAC has become the yardstick for the evaluation of access control formalisms. In order to meet organizational needs, it has been extended along several di...
Philippe Balbiani, Yannick Chevalier, Marwa El Hou...
Maintenance is recognised as the most difficult and expansive activity of the software development process. Numerous techniques and processes have been proposed to ease the mainte...