Abstract. In formal approaches, messages sent over a network are usually modeled by terms together with an equational theory, axiomatizing the properties of the cryptographic funct...
Recently, the formal approach of I–Systems has been newly hed through an abstract axiomatic system where events in system components are solely derived and defined from their b...
Arnim Wedig, Horst F. Wedde, Anca M. Lazarescu, El...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
We present a non-operational approach to specifying and analyzing shared memory consistency models. The method uses higher order logic to capture a complete set of ordering constra...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom, K...
The Unified Modeling Language is extensible, and so can be regarded as a family of languages. Implicitly or explicitly, any particular UML model should be accompanied by a definit...
Steve Cook, Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer, Richard Mit...