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ICSE
1994
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding "Why" in Software Process Modelling, Analysis, and Design
In trying to understandand redesign software processes, it is often necessaryto have an understanding of the "whys" that underliethe "whats"
Eric S. K. Yu, John Mylopoulos
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Local Models Semantics, or Contextual Reasoning = Locality + Compatibility
In this paper we present a new semantics, called Local Models Semantics, and use it to provide a foundation to reasoning with contexts. This semantics captures and makes precise t...
Fausto Giunchiglia, Chiara Ghidini
FOSAD
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Access Control: Policies, Models, and Mechanisms
Access control is the process of mediating every request to resources and data maintained by a system and determining whether the request should be granted or denied. The access co...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
General Refinement, Part One: Interfaces, Determinism and Special Refinement
We introduce a general model of refinement. This is defined in terms of what contexts an entity can appear in, and what observations can be made of it in those contexts. We show e...
Steve Reeves, David Streader
IJIS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Dynamics and control in component-based agent models
Dynamics are an important aspect of agent models. Control of dynamics requires specific methods of specification that have their own specific semantics. This paper addresses speci...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...