Constraint-based languages can express in a concise way the complex logic of a new generation of interactive services for applications such as banking or stock trading, that must ...
Learning how to create, test, and revise models is a central skill in scientific reasoning. We argue that qualitative modeling provides an appropriate level of representation for ...
Kenneth D. Forbus, Karen Carney, Bruce L. Sherin, ...
Robust and powerful software instrumentation tools are essential for program analysis tasks such as profiling, performance evaluation, and bug detection. To meet this need, we ha...
Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth, Harish...
The manual adaptation of conceptual models in general and reference models in particular is a time consuming and error prone task, which has to be carefully conducted. The configur...
We show that the model checking problem for µ-calculus on graphs of bounded tree-width can be solved in time linear in the size of the system. The result is presented by first sh...