Abstract. Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, no...
The ForSyDe methodology has been developed for system level design. In this paper we present formal transformation methods for the refinement of an abstract and formal system mode...
We present a method being developed to extract information about characters’ emotions in films. It is suggested that this information can help describe higher levels of multimed...
Tribal Ownership unifies class nesting and object ownership. Tribal Ownership is based on Tribe, a language with nested classes and object families. In Tribal Ownership, a progra...
We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based o...