Abstract. We propose to use Grothendieck institutions based on 2categorical diagrams as a basis for heterogeneous specification. We prove a number of results about colimits and (so...
This paper is a contribution to the study of uniformity conditions for endofunctors on sets initiated in Aczel [1] and pursued later in other works such as Turi [17]. The main res...
The Semantic Web (SW) is viewed as the next generation of the Web that enables intelligent software agents to process and aggregate data autonomously. Ontology languages provide ba...
Consider a simple network flow problem in which there are n channels directed from a source to a sink. The channel capacities are unknown and we wish to determine a feasible netwo...
Abstract. This paper gives a reduction-preserving translation from Coquand's dependent pattern matching [4] into a traditional type theory [11] with universes, inductive types...