Abstract. Many problems in Information and Data Management require a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of formulas expressing the relatio...
We give a formal semantics for a highly expressive language for representing temporal relationships and events. This language, which we call Versatile Event Logic (VEL), provides ...
Abstract. We propose a framework for reasoning about program security building on language-theoretic and coalgebraic concepts. The behaviour of a system is viewed as a mapping from...
We present a formulation of interconnection models and present the unit and syntactic models -- the primary models used for managing the evolution of large software systems. We di...
In this work, we present a framework for the semantic composition of web services based on Statecharts and uniform community service descriptions. Our model is a two step process....