In this article a formal model applying REST architectural principles to the description of semantic web services is introduced, including the discussion of its syntax and operati...
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
The design of safety critical systems calls for advanced software engineering models, methods and tools in order to meet the safety requirements that will avoid putting human life ...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
We introduce the ISM approach, a framework for modeling and verifying reactive systems in a formal, even machine-checked, way. The framework has been developed for applications in ...