We define and study bisimulation for proving contextual equivalence in an aspect extension of the untyped lambda-calculus. To our knowledge, this is the first study of coinductive...
Dynamic UML models like sequence diagrams (SD) lack sufficient formal semantics, making it difficult to build automated tools for their analysis, simulation and validation. A commo...
Marouane Kessentini, Arbi Bouchoucha, Houari A. Sa...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
The notion of a fragment was coined by Montague 1974 to illustrate the formal handling of certain puzzles, such as de dicto/de re, in a truth-conditional semantics for natural lan...
Product development requires the ability to check design consistency, to verify design properties, and to answer questions about a design's possible implementations. These tas...