Abstract. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Ex...
The notion of a fragment was coined by Montague 1974 to illustrate the formal handling of certain puzzles, such as de dicto/de re, in a truth-conditional semantics for natural lan...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been advocated as an effective way to deal with today's software complexity. MDE can be seen as an integrative approach combining existing ...
Despite several research studies, the effective analysis of policy based systems remains a significant challenge. Policy analysis should at least (i) be expressive (ii) take accou...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Jiefei Ma, Alessandra R...
In this paper an extension of a behavioural subset of UML statecharts for mobile computations is proposed. We study collections of UML objects whose behaviour is given by statechar...
Diego Latella, Mieke Massink, Hubert Baumeister, M...