A domain independent model is proposed for the automated interpretation of nominal compounds in English. This model is meant to account for productive rules of interpretation whic...
We propose a novel method for modular verification of web service compositions. We first use symbolic fixpoint computations to derive conditions on the incoming messages and relat...
The lifecycle of defects reports and enhancement requests collected in the Bugzilla database of the GNOME project provides valuable information on the evolution of the change requ...
1 Step-wise refinement (SWR) asserts that complex programs can be derived from simple programs by progressively adding features. The length of a program specification is the number...
We present a language for specifying web service interfaces. A web service interface puts three kinds of constraints on the users of the service. First, the interface specifies th...
Dirk Beyer, Arindam Chakrabarti, Thomas A. Henzing...