Recently, the problem of inconsistency handling in description logics has attracted a lot of attention. Many approaches have been proposed to deal with this problem based on existi...
The COL institution (constructor-based observational logic) has been introduced as a formal framework to specify both generationand observation-oriented properties of software syst...
We study the semantics and refinement of mobile objects, considering an extension of core UML state machines by primitives that designate the location of objects and their moves wi...
We show how well-known refinements of ordered resolution, in particular redundancy elimination and ordering constraints in combination with a selection function, can be used to obt...
: This paper gives a definition of ASM refinement suitable for the verification that a protocol implements atomic transactions. We used this definition as the basis of the formal v...