What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals tw...
In this paper, we present a formal model, named PobSAM (Policy-based Self-Adaptive Model), for modeling self-adaptive systems. In this model, policies are used as a mechanism to d...
Narges Khakpour, Saeed Jalili, Carolyn L. Talcott,...
ion techniques are indispensable for the specification and verification of functional behavior of programs. In object-oriented ation languages like JML, a powerful abstraction tec...
In this paper, we introduce a new security property which intends to capture the ability of a cryptographic protocol being resistant to denial of service. This property, called im...
Automatic annotation of documents with controlled vocabulary terms (descriptors) from a conceptual thesaurus is not only useful for document indexing and retrieval. The mapping of...