We develop the rst steps of a theory of concurrency within the framework of evolving algebras of Gurevich, with the aim of investigating its suitability for the role of a general f...
—One-counter processes are pushdown systems over a singleton stack alphabet (plus a stack-bottom symbol). We study the complexity of two closely related verification problems ov...
Deduction-based software component retrieval uses preand postconditions as indexes and search keys and an automated theorem prover (ATP) to check whether a component matches. This...
In the context of service-oriented computing, behavioural contracts are descriptions of the message-passing behaviour of services. They can be used to check properties of service c...
We present a methodology for the modeling of complex program behavior in CLP. In the first part we present an informal description about how to represent a system in CLP. At its ...