Interface formalisms are able to model both the input requirements and the output behavior of system components; they support both bottom-up component-based design, and top-down de...
Luca de Alfaro, Leandro Dias da Silva, Marco Faell...
We introduce a general formalism of production inference relations that posses both a standard monotonic semantics and a natural nonmonotonic semantics. The resulting nonmonotonic...
Abstract. Clinical guidelines (GLs) play an important role to standardize and organize clinical processes according to evidence-based medicine. Several computer-based GL representa...
Marco Beccuti, Alessio Bottrighi, Giuliana Frances...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been designed to be a full standard notation for Object-Oriented Modelling. UML is a rather complete set of notations, but it lacks of form...
The nominal approach to abstract syntax deals with the issues of bound names and α-equivalence by considering constructions and properties that are invariant with respect to permu...