We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) have been shown to be a powerful tool in formal verification. Efficient BDD construction techniques become more important as the complexity of proto...
Bwolen Yang, Yirng-An Chen, Randal E. Bryant, Davi...
Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
Pervasive computing environments introduce new requirements in expressiveness and flexibility of access control policies which are almost addressable leveraging contextual informa...
Amir Reza Masoumzadeh, Morteza Amini, Rasool Jalil...
Many man-made and natural structures consist of similar elements arranged in regular patterns. In this paper we present an unsupervised approach for discovering and reasoning on re...