A refutation mechanism is introduced into logic programming, dual to the usual proof mechanism; then negation is treated via refutation. A four-valued logic is appropriate for the...
System families are a form of high level reuse of development assets in a specific problem domain, by making use of commonalities and variabilities. To represent assets belonging ...
In a previous work we have presented a formal framework devoted to show the relevance of choreography and orchestration in the design of service oriented applications. Even if usef...
Individual-based models are a relatively new approach to modelling dynamical systems of interacting entities, for example molecules in a biological cell. Although they are computa...
In the search for metrics that can predict the presence of vulnerabilities early in the software life cycle, there may be some benefit to choosing metrics from the non-security rea...