The monadic style of language speci cation has the advantages of modularity and extensibility: it is simple to add or change features in an interpreter to re ect modi cations in t...
A new multiagent programmingparadigm based on the transactional logic model' is developed. This paradigm enables us to construct a Distributed agent transactional program (DA...
Models of software systems are built in Z and VDM using partial functions between sets and certain operations on these partial functions : extension ( ), restriction ( ), removal ...
We describe a language which can be used to model business processes (both technical and nontechnical). It has a formal semantics, so as to enable formal analysis and prediction o...
The Pathfinder project makes inventive use of relational database technology--originally developed to process data of strictly tabular shape--to construct efficient database-suppo...