Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Previous works define the notion of system model, which provides a formal basis for the definition of the semantics of a distributed object-oriented modelling language. This articl...
Software composition via workflow specifications has received a great deal of attention recently. One reason is the high degree of fit with the encapsulation of software modules...
Abstract. This paper represents the beginning of a study aimed at devising semantic models for true concurrency that provide clear distinctions between concurrency, parallelism and...
Past attempts to relate two well-known models of backtracking computation have met with only limited success. We relate these two models using logical relations. We accommodate hi...