In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly d...
Abstract. We introduce a modular framework for formalizing reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. This framework is composed of non-deterministic semantic structur...
Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...
Abstract. MALLET is a team-oriented agent specification and programming language. In this paper, we define an operational semantics for MALLET in terms of a transition system. Th...
Xiaocong Fan, John Yen, Michael S. Miller, Richard...
The recent major revision of the UML (see [4]) has introduced significant changes and additions. In particular, Message Sequence Charts (MSC) according to the ISO standard (see [...