We give a denotational semantics to a type and effect system tracking reading and writing to global variables holding values that may include higher-order effectful functions. Reļ...
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Lennart Beringer, Mar...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time,...
David L. Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila A. McIlr...
Abstract. The current UML semantics documentation has made a signi cant step towards providing a precise description of the UML. However, at present the semantic model it proposes ...
The desideratum for the concept of a semiotic web is proposed. It combines both the recent semantic web and the pragmatic web initiatives but surpasses them in being faithful to C...
Abstract. The preferential and rational consequence relations ļ¬rst studied by Lehmann and colleagues play a central role in non-monotonic reasoning, not least because they provid...