The goal of the paper is to explicate some common formal logic underlying various notational systems used in visual modeling. The idea is to treat the notational diversity as the d...
Zinovy Diskin, Boris Kadish, Frank Piessens, Micha...
Despite its importance, we find that a rigorous theoretical foundation for performing timing analysis has been lacking so far. As a result, we have initiated a research project th...
V. Chandramouli, Jesse Whittemore, Karem A. Sakall...
Abstract. Hybrid knowledge bases (HKB’s) [11] were developed to provide formal models for the mediation of data and knowledge bases [14,15]. They are based on Generalized Annotat...
Abstract. UnifyingTheoriesofProgramming(UTP)canprovideaformalsemantic foundation not only for programming languages but also for more expressive specification languages. We believ...
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by ...