The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is likely to become an important industry standard language for modelling object-oriented systems. However, its use as a precise analysis tool ...
Description Logics form a family of formalisms closely related to semantic networks but with the distinguishing characteristic that the semantics of the concept description langua...
Today, any large object-oriented software system is built using frameworks. Yet, designing frameworks and defining their interaction with clients remains a difficult task. A prima...
Kowalski and Sergot’s Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, allows the derivation of the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) o...
Many object-oriented methods have assumed classbased approaches, without considering prototype-based ones. Some authors, while admitting prototypes as a useful concept, only envis...
Birgitte Krogh, Sean Levy, Allen H. Dutoit, Eswara...