Abstract. The vector-space retrieval model and Latent Semantic Indexing approaches to retrieval have been used heavily in the field of text information retrieval over the past yea...
Abstract We present a formal semantics as a conservative shallow embedding of the Object Constraint Language (OCL). OCL is currently under development within an open standardizatio...
Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
Abstract. In this paper, the authors introduce an extension of UML for the purpose of hybrid systems modeling. The construction uses the profile mechanism of UML 2.0 which is the ...
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...