The growing importance of context-awareness in the construction of adaptable systems requires the development of formal models and notations that can bring this new dimension from ...
Abstract. In this paper we present and discuss a meta-ontological archifor ontologies which centers on abstract core ontologies (ACOs). s the most abstract part of a foundational o...
This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligatio...
A formal language approach for the specification of ALife models is presented. “Relational Growth Grammars” incorporate rulebased, procedural and object-oriented concepts. By ...
Ole Kniemeyer, Gerhard H. Buck-Sorlin, Winfried Ku...
This paper is a highly personal and subjective account of how the language of statecharts came into being. The main novelty of the language is in being a fully executable visual f...