Recent studies have provided many characterisations of the class of polynomial time computable functions through term rewriting techniques. In this paper we describe a (fully autom...
In industrial manufacturing rigorous testing is used to ensure that the delivered products meet their specifications. Mechanical maladjustment or faults often show their presence t...
The semantics of class-based languages can be deļ¬ned in terms of objects only [8, 7, 1] if classes are viewed as objects with a constructor method. One obtains a store in which m...
UML class diagrams (UCDs) are the de-facto standard formalism for the analysis and design of information systems. By adopting formal language techniques to capture constraints expr...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Yazmin Ang&eac...
We investigate model theoretic characterisations of the expressive power of modal logics in terms of bisimulation invariance. The paradigmatic result of this kind is van Benthemā...