We introduce COWS (Calculus for Orchestration of Web Services), a new foundational language for SOC whose design has been influenced by WS-BPEL, the de facto standard language for...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
Abstract. This paper extends a programming language for implementing cognitive agents with the capability to explicitly represent beliefs and reason about them. In this programming...
Temporal specification languages provide an efficient way to express events comprised of complex temporal scenarios. Assertions based on these languages are used to detect viola...
XQuery, the standard query language for XML, is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to ...
Abstract. UnifyingTheoriesofProgramming(UTP)canprovideaformalsemantic foundation not only for programming languages but also for more expressive specification languages. We believ...