This paper is a contribution to formal ontology study. Some entities belong more or less to a class. In particular, some individual entities are attached to classes whereas they d...
Timed Concurrent State Machines are an application of Alur’s Timed Automata concept to coincidence-based (rather than interleaving) CSM modeling technique. TCSM support the idea...
Abstract. The complete specification of full contracts -- contracts which include tolerated exceptions, and which enable reasoning about the contracts themselves, can be achieved u...
Even though the final objective of an access control model is to provide a framework to decide if actions performed by subjects on objects are permitted or not, it is not convenie...
Abstract. In this paper, we introduce a paraconsistent extension of Rough Description Logics which allows the representation of incomplete and contradictory concepts, as well as th...