The Semantic Web languages RDFS and OWL have been around for some time now. However, the presence of these languages has not brought the breakthrough of the Semantic Web the creat...
Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel, Jos de Bruijn, Rub&e...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu
Standard ML employs an opaque (or generative) semantics of datatypes, in which every datatype declaration produces a new type that is different from any other type, including othe...
Joseph Vanderwaart, Derek Dreyer, Leaf Petersen, K...
Semantic mapping is one of the important components underlying the data sharing systems. As is known, constructing and maintaining such mappings both are necessary yet extremely h...
The construction of reliable concurrent and distributed systems is an extremely difficult endeavour. For complex systems, it requires modular development strategies based on prec...