Abstract. In this paper the focus is on object-oriented analysis of information systems. We assume that the communication within an application domain can be described by a logbook...
XML (Extensible Markup Language), a linear syntax for trees, has gathered a remarkable amount of interest in industry. The acceptance of XML opens new venues for the application o...
Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precis...
We present a formal specification and verification approach for industrial product data bases containing Boolean logic formulae to express constraints. Within this framework, globa...
In 1969 Cordell Green presented his seminal description of planning as theorem proving with the situation calculus. The most pleasing feature of Green's account was the negli...