Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
Inspired by the properties of the refinement development of the Mondex Electronic Purse, we view an atomic action as a family of transitions with a common before-state, and differ...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger