A formal two-phase model of democratic policy deliberation is presented, in which in the first phase sufficient and necessary criteria for proposals to be accepted are determine...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Wietske V...
Abstract— Model Checking is a well-known and fully automatic technique for checking software properties, usually given as temporal logic formulae on the program variables. Most o...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...