The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...
This paper deals with a well known problem in AI planning: detecting and resolving conflicts in nonlinear plans. We sketch a theory of restricted conflict detection and resolution...
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Insider attacks are a well-known problem acknowledged as a threat as early as 1980s. The threat is attributed to legitimate users who abuse their privileges, and given their famil...
Non-terminating programs are programs that legally perform unbounded computations. Though they are ubiquitous in real-world applications, testing these programs requires new theor...