In the previous two decades, a number of qualitative constraint calculi have been developed, which are used to represent and reason about spatial configurations. A common property...
Methods of formal description and verification represent a viable way for achieving fundamentally bug-free software. However, in reality only a small subset of the existing operati...
Designers of concurrent and distributed algorithms usually express them using pseudo-code. In contrast, most verification techniques are based on more mathematically-oriented forma...
The Graphical Object Query Language (GOQL) is a graphical query language that complies with the ODMG standard and runs on top of the o2 DBMS. The language provides users with the ...
Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...