Abstract. Rule-based specifications have been very successful as a declarative approach in many domains, due to the handy yet solid foundations offered by rule-based machineries li...
Artur Boronat, Roberto Bruni, Alberto Lluch-Lafuen...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
We show that a wide class of bidirectional data-flow analyses and program optimizations based on them admit declarative descriptions in the form of type systems. The salient feat...
Distributed logic programming languages, that allow both facts and programs to be distributed among different nodes in a network, have been recently proposed and used to declarati...
Vivek Nigam, Limin Jia, Boon Thau Loo, Andre Scedr...
We develop a notion of predicate transformer and, in particular, the weakest precondition, appropriate for quantum computation. We show that there is a Stone-type duality between ...