This paper presents a formal framework for compositional reasoning about secure systems. A key insight is to view a trusted system in terms of the interfaces that the various comp...
Deepak Garg, Jason Franklin, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, ...
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that A-Prolog is a powerful language for the construction of reasoning systems. In fact, A-Prolog allows to specify the initial situation, t...
Marcello Balduccini, Michael Gelfond, Monica Nogue...
Policies are used to describe rules that are employed to modify (often distributed) system behaviour at runtime. Typically policies are created by many different people and there a...
Carlo Montangero, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Laura S...
Abstract. We propose inductive distance-based methods for instance classification and retrieval in ontologies. Casting retrieval as a classification problem with the goal of assess...
Self-adapting software adapts its behavior in an autonomic way, by dynamically adding, suppressing and recomposing components, and by the use of computational reflection. One way t...