We investigate two forms of dependence between variables and/or formulas within a propositional knowledge base: controllability (a set of variables X controls a formula , if there...
— With the increasing number of embedded computer systems being used in safety critical applications the testing and assessment of a system’s fault tolerance properties become ...
While Moore’s Law predicts the ability of semi-conductor industry to engineer smaller and more efficient transistors and circuits, there are serious issues not contemplated in t...
Javier Carretero, Pedro Chaparro, Xavier Vera, Jau...
The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...
We describe a (meta) formalism for defining a variety of (object oriented) data models in a unified framework based on a variation of first-order logic. As specific example we use...