We present an approach in which the semantics of an XML language is defined by means of a transformation from an XML document model (an XML schema) to an application specific mode...
Industry is facing a crisis in the design of complex hardware/software systems. Due to the increasing complexity, the gap between the generation of a product idea and the realisat...
Jeroen Voeten, P. H. A. van der Putten, Marc Geile...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...
The decomposition of large systems into parts is a general principle of software design. Even more, in the scope of distributed systems a partition of the whole system into distri...
Abstract. Description Logics are a family of class based knowledge representation formalisms characterised by the use of various constructors to build complex classes from simpler ...