Abstract. We present a new combination CSP-OZ-DC of three well researched formal techniques for the specification of processes, data and time: CSP [17], Object-Z [36], and Duration...
The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists....
As a means of modeling typical system behavior, we present a description technique for business processes derived from data flow nets and provide it with a formal semantics based ...
The aim of this paper is to propose a method for tagging named entities (NE), using natural language processing techniques. Beyond their literal meaning, named entities are freque...
iary models in order to bridge the semantic gap between high-level, abstract user requirements and low-level, concrete programs and to support a stepwise refinement process. This d...