There has been a lot of recent research on transaction-based concurrent programming, aimed at offering an easier concurrent programming paradigm that enables programmers to better...
Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
ract interpretation of programs relates the exact semantics of a programming language to an approximate semantics that can be effectively computed. We show that, by specifying ope...
This tutorial paper discusses a particular style of operational semantics that enables one to give a ‘syntax-directed’ inductive definition of termination which is very useful...
This paper describes two different ways of understanding operation contracts in conceptual modeling: the strict and the extended interpretations. The main difference between them l...