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TII
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Formal Methods for Systems Engineering Behavior Models
Abstract--Safety analysis in Systems Engineering (SE) processes, as usually implemented, rarely relies on formal methods such as model checking since such techniques, however power...
Charlotte Seidner, Olivier H. Roux
AOSE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Formal Approach to Design and Reuse Agent and Multiagent Models
While there are many useful models of agents and multi-agent systems, they are typically defined in an informal way and applied in an ad-hoc fashion. Consequently, multi-agent sys...
Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Ja...
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Formal verification of translation validators: a case study on instruction scheduling optimizations
Translation validation consists of transforming a program and a posteriori validating it in order to detect a modification of its semantics. This approach can be used in a verifie...
Jean-Baptiste Tristan, Xavier Leroy
VLDB
2001
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Global transaction support for workflow management systems: from formal specification to practical implementation
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
ISMIS
2003
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
A Formal Approach to Describing Action Concepts in Taxonomical Knowledge Bases
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
Christel Kemke