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ROOM
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Checking the Consistency of UML Class Diagrams Using Larch Prover
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been designed to be a full standard notation for Object-Oriented Modelling. UML is a rather complete set of notations, but it lacks of form...
Pascal André, Annya Romanczuk, Jean-Claude ...
COLING
2000
13 years 10 months ago
A Formal Semantics for Generating and Editing Plurals
We present a formal semantics for an objectoriented formalism which allows for the representation of plural objects (such as `Three N', `Most of the N', `Some N',.....
Paul Piwek
SAM
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Scenario Synthesis from Imprecise Requirements
Discovering faults in requirements specifications for distributed reactive systems is a challenging problem since many issues that need to be uncovered are a result of subtle compo...
Bill Mitchell, Robert Thomson, Paul Bristow
NAACL
2004
13 years 10 months ago
What's in a translation rule?
We propose a theory that gives formal semantics to word-level alignments defined over parallel corpora. We use our theory to introduce a linear algorithm that can be used to deriv...
Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, Daniel ...
ER
2008
Springer
117views Database» more  ER 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
On the Formal Semantics of Change Patterns in Process-Aware Information Systems
Due to a turbulent market enterprises should be able to adapt their business processes in a quick and flexible way. This requires adaptive process-aware information systems (PAISs)...
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Manfred Reichert, Barbara We...
ECMDAFA
2006
Springer
166views Hardware» more  ECMDAFA 2006»
14 years 6 days ago
Dynamic Logic Semantics for UML Consistency
Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Greg O'Keefe
DBPL
2007
Springer
119views Database» more  DBPL 2007»
14 years 14 days ago
A Better Semantics for XQuery with Side-Effects
Abstract. Formal semantics for XQuery with side-effects have been proposed in [13, 16]. We propose a different semantics which is better suited for database compilation. We substan...
Giorgio Ghelli, Nicola Onose, Kristoffer Hø...
DOOD
1997
Springer
163views Database» more  DOOD 1997»
14 years 21 days ago
On a Declarative Semantics for Web Queries
With the increasing importance of the World Wide Web as an information source, there is a growing interest for integration of Web and database technology. Several Web query languag...
Rainer Himmeröder, Georg Lausen, Bertram Lud&...
KBSE
1997
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
A Formal Automated Approach for Reverse Engineering Programs with Pointers
Given a program S and a precondition Q, the strongest postcondition, denoted sp(S Q), is defined as the strongest condition that holds after the execution of S, given that S term...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
CSFW
2000
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Reasoning about Secrecy for Active Networks
In this paper we develop a language of mobile agents called uPLAN for describing the capabilities of active (programmable) networks. We use a formal semantics for uPLAN to demonst...
Pankaj Kakkar, Carl A. Gunter, Martín Abadi