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ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Identity, Unity, and Individuality: Towards a Formal Toolkit for Ontological Analysis
We introduce here the notions of identity and unity as they have been discussed in Philosophy, and then provide additional clarifications needed to use these notions as fundamental...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
DEXA
2000
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
A Qualitative Formalization of Built Environments
Abstract. In this paper I argue that a qualitative formalization of built environments needs to take into account: (1) the ontological distinction between bonafide and fiat bound...
Thomas Bittner
JAR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Formal Verification of a C-like Memory Model and Its Uses for Verifying Program Transformations
This article presents the formal verification, using the Coq proof assistant, of a memory model for low-level imperative languages such as C and compiler intermediate languages. Be...
Xavier Leroy, Sandrine Blazy
EUROMICRO
1996
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Behaviour-Preserving Transformations in SHE: A Formal Approach to Architecture Design
SHE (Software/Hardware Engineering) is an objectoriented analysis, specification and design method for complex reactive hardware/software systems. SHE is based on the formal speci...
Jeroen Voeten, P. H. A. van der Putten, M. P. J. S...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Formal Approach for RDF/S Ontology Evolution
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of ontology evolution in the face of a change operation. We devise a general-purpose algorithm for determining the effects and side...
George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris A...