Abstract This paper introduces new-HOPLA, a concise but powerful language for higherorder nondeterministic processes with name generation. Its origins as a metalanguage for domain ...
Disjunctive Logic Programming (DLP) under the consistent answer set semantics is an advanced formalism for knowledge representation and reasoning. It is, under widely believed assu...
Current formal models for quantum computation deal only with unitary gates operating on “pure quantum states”. In these models it is difficult or impossible to deal formally w...
We study a metamodel for the Entity Relationship (ER) and the Relational data model. We do this by describing the syntax of the ER data model by introducing classes for ER schemata...
Getting agents in the Internet, and in networks in general, to invest in and deploy security features and protocols is a challenge, in particular because of economic reasons arisi...