Norms are essential to extend inference: inferences based on norms are far richer than those based on logical implications. In the recent decades, much effort has been devoted to r...
XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
Abstract. Even though SQL has become widely accepted as a language for implementing relational database schemas and querying data, there are cases where s experience the need for n...
Abstract The class of ω-regular languages provide a robust specification language in verification. Every ω-regular condition can be decomposed into a safety part and a liveness...
This paper describes a type system that is capable of expressing and enforcing immutability constraints. The specific constraint exis that the abstract state of the object to whi...