In formal design, decoupling means to make the features of a formal system as independent as possible from each other. Decoupling tends to make the features semantically more primi...
The Situation Calculus and the Fluent Calculus are successful action formalisms that share many concepts. But until now there is no formal relation between the two calculi that wo...
KAOS is a goal directed requirements engineering framework based on the decomposition and refinement of goals. Decomposition and refinement continue until a point is reached at ...
This paper shows how a Fuzzy Ontology based approach can improve semantic documents retrieval. After formally defining a Fuzzy Knowledge Base, it is discussed a special type of ne...
Formal methods can be used in effective combination only if the semantic links between individual methods are clearly established. This paper discusses the semantic design of TCOZ,...