In the context of modelling cryptographic tools like blind signatures and homomorphic encryption, the DolevYao model is typically extended with an operator over which encryption i...
: Mereotopology faces problems when its methods are extended to deal with time and change. We offer a new solution to these problems, based on a theory of partitions of reality wh...
In contrast to the current general way of developing tools for proving termination automatically, this paper intends to show an alternative program based on using on the one hand t...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
We present a decidable class of first-order formulas in the general theory of stable models that can be instantiated even in the presence of function constants. The notion of an ...