The SIM-DL theory has been developed to enable similarity measurement between concept specifications using description logics. It thus closes the gap between similarity theories f...
Abstract. An ontology matching method (or a matcher) aims at matching every entity (or concept) in one ontology to the most suitable entity (or entities) in another ontology. Usual...
Abstract. We present a compositional theory of system verification, where specifications assign real-numbered costs to systems. These costs can express a wide variety of quantita...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faell...
We show that the first-order theory of structural subtyping of non-recursive types is decidable, as a consequence of a more general result on the decidability of term powers of d...
During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of ChristopherAlexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect’s...