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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman
98
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CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Deriving Specifications of Dependable Systems: toward a Method
Abstract--This paper proposes a method for deriving formal specifications of systems. To accomplish this task we pass through a non trivial number of steps, concepts and tools wher...
Manuel Mazzara
120
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SCCC
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Software Architectural Specification for Optimal Object Distribution
Software architectural design is essential for complex distributed applications. Architectural specifications need to define the key aspects of the application, including its inte...
M. Cecilia Bastarrica, Steven A. Demurjian, Alexan...
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
15 years 7 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
129
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DAGSTUHL
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Testing with Functions as Specifications
Although computer systems penetrate all facets of society, the software running those systems may contain many errors. Producing high quality software appears to be difficult and v...
Pieter W. M. Koopman