With the increasing emphasis on dependability in complex, distributed systems, it is essential that system development can be done gradually and at different levels of detail. In ...
Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, ...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu
Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there exists an important need for novel techniques and mechan...
The structure of object-oriented systems typically forms a complicated, tangled web of interdependent classes. Understanding this implicit and hidden structure poses severe proble...
Because diagrams are often created incrementally, a qualitative diagrammatic reasoning system must dynamically manage a potentially large set of spatial interpretations. This pape...
Ronald W. Ferguson, Joseph L. Bokor, Rudolph L. Ma...