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CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts
This paper presents the outline of a formal ontology of contexts. More specifically, it deals with the ontology of ecological contexts (niches, habitats, environments, ambients) an...
Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi
ICDT
1997
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Foundation for Distributed Workflow Execution Based on State Charts
This paper provides a formal foundation for distributed workfiow executions. The state chart formalism is adapted to the needs of a workflow model in order to establish a basis for...
Dirk Wodtke, Gerhard Weikum
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Semantic wiki aided business process specification
This paper formulates a collaborative system for modeling business application. The system uses a Semantic Wiki to enable collaboration between the various stakeholders involved i...
Toufeeq Hussain, Rajesh Balakrishnan, Amar Viswana...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Joint conversation specification and compliance
Formal specifications of protocol-oriented agent interactions have focused mainly on the semantics of the constituent agent communication language (ACL). We argue that a proper th...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Michael Wooldridge
AMAST
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Evolving Specification Engineering
Abstract. The motivation for this work is to support a natural separation of concerns during formal system development. In a developmentby-refinement context, we would like to be a...
Dusko Pavlovic, Peter Pepper, Douglas R. Smith