Abduction is an important form of nonmonotonic reasoning allowing one to find explanations for certain symptoms or manifestations. When the application domain is described by a l...
In this paper, several examples from the literature, and one central new one, are used as case studies of texts of discourse containing an argumentation scheme that has now been w...
A variety of factors is making it increasingly difficult and expensive to design and manufacture traditional Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). This has started a s...
Abstract. The ZETA system is a Z-based tool environment for developing formal specifications. It contains a component for executing the Z language based on the implementation techn...
cation at some level of abstraction, abandoning the semantic information provided by the specification. In this paper, we propose a methodology that ships the overhead of formal re...