Model checking requires a specification of the target system’s desirable properties, some of which are temporal. Formulating a property of the system based on either its abstrac...
To investigate the interdependencies existing among deontic positions (like powers and obligations) and the ontology defined by an institution, we have proposed to model instituti...
The development of complex software requires the implementation of functions over a variety of recursively defined data structures. The design (and modeling) of structures can it...
System specifications are often structured as collections of scenarios and use-cases that describe desired and forbidden sequences of events. A recently proposed behavioral progr...
David Harel, Robby Lampert, Assaf Marron, Gera Wei...
In this paper we analyze the relationship between cyclic definitions and consistency in GelfondLifschitz's answer sets semantics (initially defined as `stable model semantics...