Aliasing is endemic in object oriented programming. Because an object can be modified via any alias, object oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Flexibl...
The coordination language Paradigm allows for a flexible and orthogonal modeling of interprocess relationships at the architectural level. It is shown how dynamic system adaptation...
Abstract. We present a type system for a compile-time analysis of heapspace requirements of Java style object-oriented programs with explicit deallocation. Our system is based on a...
Handling exceptions represents one of the most important problems in Artificial Intelligence. Several approaches have been proposed for reasoning on default theories. This paper f...
If we are to take the notion of speech act seriously, we must be able to treat speech acts as acts. In what follows, I will try to model changes brought about by various acts of co...