In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
One major obstacle to requirements engineering (RE) is the growing complexity of today's systems. Such a complexity can only be fficiently by powerful abstraction mechanisms a...
With the rapid growth of real application domains for NLP systems, there is a genuine demand for a general toolkit from which programmers with no linguistic knowledge can build sp...
Hassan Alam, Hua Cheng, Rachmat Hartono, Aman Kuma...
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
Abstract. The modelling of landscape environment is a cognitive activity, that still requires novel kinds of spatial representations. This paper introduces a structural categorisat...
Jean-Marie Le Yaouanc, Eric Saux, Christophe Clara...