We focus in this paper on some meta-level ontological distinctions among unary predicates, like those between concepts and assertional properties. Three are the main contributions...
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...
Abstract. Many software model checkers are based on predicate abstraction. If the verification goal depends on pointer structures, the approach does not work well, because it is di...
The Unified Modeling Language UML is well-suited for the design of real-time systems. In particular, the design of dynamic system behaviors is supported by interaction diagrams an...