This paper formalizes the notion of a design model structurally conforming to a design pattern by representing the model as a logic program whilst the pattern as a query. The conf...
—This paper deals with the Space Mapping (SM) approach to engineering design optimization. We attempt here a theoretical justification of methods that have already proven efficie...
We present a method for trust scenarios with more than one trustee, where sets of trustees are ordered in a relation of relative trustworthiness. We show how a priority structure i...
Among the possible approaches for expressing real-time problems with the B method, two are dominant : the use of the usual B mechanisms to define temporal constraints on the one h...
Conversations between citizens and their representatives may take a number of forms. In this paper, we consider one of these — letters between citizens and representatives — an...
Katie Greenwood, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter M...