The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
Trust dilution and trust fusion are two operators that are used to calculate transitive trust in a trust network. Various implementations of these operators already exist but are n...
Higher-order narrowing is a general method for higher-order equational reasoning and serves for instance as the foundation for the integration of functional and logic programming. ...
This paper introduces a new high level programming language for a novel class of computational devices namely data-procedural machines. These machines are by up to several orders o...
An advanced Self-Timed Reduced Instruction Set Computer (ST-RISC) architecture is described. It is designed hierarchically, and is formally specified functionally at the various ...