As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
This paper describes a new kind of language bias, S-structural indeterminate clauses, which takes into account the meaning of predicates that play a key role in the complexity of l...
tract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic Dumitru Roman1 , Michael Kifer2 , and Dieter Fensel1 1 STI Innsbruck, Austria 2 State University of New York at Stony Brook, US...
Temporal logics are well suited for the specification and verification of systems of communicating agents. In this paper we adopt a social approach to agent communication, where c...