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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
"Sketching" nurturing creativity: commonalities in art, design, engineering and research
icians or philosophers use abstract symbols to derive formulas or form proofs. Indeed, these sketches are structural geometric proofs, consistent with Plato's supposition that...
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Atau Tanaka, Daniel Fallman
JELIA
1990
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Semantic Interpretation as Higher-Order Deduction
Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
Fernando C. N. Pereira
VMCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SubPolyhedra: A (More) Scalable Approach to Infer Linear Inequalities
Abstract. We introduce Subpolyhedra (SubPoly) a new numerical abstract domain to infer and propagate linear inequalities. SubPoly is as expressive as Polyhedra, but it drops some o...
Vincent Laviron, Francesco Logozzo
APN
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Use of Coloured Petri Nets for Object-Oriented Design
Abstract. Behaviour specification in object-oriented design clearly benefits from the use of a formal, or semi-formal, visual specification language. This is attested by the ado...
João Paulo Barros, Luís Gomes
EMSOFT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Conservative approximations for heterogeneous design
Embedded systems are electronic devices that function in the context of a real environment, by sensing and reacting to a set of stimuli. Because of their close interaction with th...
Roberto Passerone, Jerry R. Burch, Alberto L. Sang...