Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
Abstract. In this paper we present a novel approach for the predicative specification of user rights in the context of an object oriented use case driven development process. We e...
Programmers rely on the correctness of the tools in their programming environments. In the past, semanticists have studied the correctness of compilers and compiler analyses, which...
Abstract. We present a modal language that includes explicit operators to count the number of elements that a model might include in the extension of a formula, and we discuss how ...
Carlos Areces, Guillaume Hoffmann, Alexandre Denis