This paper develops a mathematical characterisation of object-oriented concepts by defining an observation-oriented semantics for an object-oriented language (OOL) with a rich var...
Developing and consistently evolving quality software designs requires both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The former can be communicated in a classroom; the latter h...
This paper presents a new paradigm for information theory which is a synthesis of Barwise-Seligman’s qualitative theory and Shannon’s quantitative theory. The new paradigm is ...
Abstract. The problem of finding an agreement on the meaning of heterogeneous schemas is one of the key issues in the development of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a ...
Generating the reachability set is one of the most commonly required step when analyzing the logical or stochastic behavior of a system modeled with Petri nets. Traditional “expl...