The paper introduces the notion of off-line justification for Answer Set Programming (ASP). Justifications provide a graph-based explanation of the truth value of an atom w.r.t. a ...
Formal reasoning about concurrent programs is usually done with the assumption that the underlying memory model is sequentially consistent, i.e. the execution outcome is equivalen...
The notion of assumption-based framework generalises and re nes the use of abduction to give a formalisation of non-monotonic reasoning. In this framework, a sentence is a non-mon...
Andrei Bondarenko, Francesca Toni, Robert A. Kowal...
We give a denotational semantics to a region-based effect system tracking reading, writing and allocation in a higher-order language with dynamically allocated integer references....
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Lennart Beringer, Mar...
Model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques are increasingly being used to address many of the development and operational lifecycle concerns of large-scale component-based systems....