The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
Hierarchical Message Sequence Charts are a well-established formalism to specify telecommunication protocols. In this model, numerous undecidability results were obtained recently ...
This paper describes a type system that is capable of expressing and enforcing immutability constraints. The specific constraint exis that the abstract state of the object to whi...
This paper discusses an ontology based language modeling text mining approach to the annotation of protein community. Communities appear to play an important role in the functional...
Xiaodan Zhang, Daniel Duanqing Wu, Xiaohua Zhou, X...
Autonomy has always been conceived as one of the defining attributes of intelligent agents. While the past years have seen considerable progress regarding theoretical aspects of a...