Given a specification of communication rules in a multiagent system (in the form of protocols, ACL semantics, etc.), the question of how to design appropriate agents that can oper...
Abstract. Translation of Multi-word expressions (MWEs) is one of the most challenging tasks of a Machine translation (MT) system. In this paper, we present an innovative technique ...
The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it eas...
Willem Visser, Klaus Havelund, Guillaume P. Brat, ...
A declarative programming language has two kinds of semantics. The tract helps in reasoning about speci cations and correctness, while an operational semantics determines the mann...
Abstract. Formal methods based on the mathematical theory of partially ordered sets (i.e., posets) have been used in the database field for the modelling of spatial data since many...