Abstract. In a previous paper, we have introduced an approach for extending both the terminological and the assertional part of a Description Logic knowledge base by using informat...
Abstract. Non-functional requirements encompass important design concerns such as schedulability, security, and communication constraints. In model-based development they non-local...
Ethan K. Jackson, Dirk Seifert, Markus Dahlweid, T...
This paper suggests formal frameworks that can be used as the basis for defining, reasoning about, and verifying properties of agent systems. The language, Little-JIL is graphical...
Schneider's work on rank functions [14] provides a formal approach to verification of certain properties of a security protocol. However, he illustrates the approach only wit...
Expert search, in which given a query a ranked list of experts instead of documents is returned, has been intensively studied recently due to its importance in facilitating the ne...