We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
This paper proposes an operational semantics for BDI modules that can be incorporated in multi-agent programming languages. The introduced concept of modules facilitates the implem...
This paper shows how classic inductive assertions can be used in conjunction with an operational semantics to prove partial correctness properties of programs. The method imposes o...
In this paper, dynamic meta modeling is proposed as a new approach to the operational semantics of behavioral UML diagrams. The dynamic meta model extends the well-known static met...
Gregor Engels, Jan Hendrik Hausmann, Reiko Heckel,...
Logic programs under the stable models semantics, or answer-set programs, provide an expressive rule based knowledge representation framework, featuring formal, declarative and wel...