The last decade has seen a phenomenal increase in the use of electronic components in automotive systems, resulting in the replacement of purely mechanical or hydraulic-implementa...
After brie y reviewing the basic notions and terminology of active rules and relating them to production rules and deductive rules, respectively, we survey a number of formal appro...
Many programs need to access data in a relational database. This is usually done by means of queries written in SQL. Although the language SQL is declarative, certain runtime erro...
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
We present a polynomial upper bound for flattening of UML statecharts. An efficient flattening technique is derived and implemented in SCOPE—a code generator targeting constra...