Abstract. Due to new emerging areas in the communication field there is a constant need for the design of novel communication protocols. This demands techniques for a rapid and eff...
The importance of a design methodology when using Formal Description Techniques is generally agreed in the scientific community. This paper presents some design principles and con...
How can an intelligent agent update her knowledge base about an action domain, relative to some conditions (possibly obtained from earlier observations)? We study this question in...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Software architecture addresses the high level specification, design and analysis of software systems. Formal models can provide essential underpinning for architectural descripti...
John Herbert, Bruno Dutertre, Robert A. Riemenschn...