We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
Annotation and retrieval tools for multimedia digital libraries have to cope with the complexity of multimedia content. In particular, when dealing with video content, annotation ...
To achieve the multi-agent systems’ goals, agents interact to exchange information, to cooperate and to coordinate their tasks. Interaction is generally recognized as an importa...
This paper introduces and studies a new type of logical construction, which allows to combine various non-classical propositional logics with the temporal or modal background. The...
—This paper introduces HOpiPn, the higher-order pi-calculus with passivation and name creation, and develops an equivalence theory for this calculus. Passivation [Schmitt and Ste...