Correctness is the essential requirement criteria for military web ontology based information systems. Reasoning and consistency checking can be useful at many stages during the design, maintenance and deployment of Semantic Web (SW) ontology. Formal methods can provide automatic reasoning and consistency checking services for SW. In this paper, we use military plan ontology as a case study to ...

We develop a formal method verification technique for cryptographic protocols. We focus on proving observational equivalences of the kind P ∼ Q, where the processes P and Q have the same structure and differ only in the choice of terms. The calculus of ProVerif, a variant of the applied pi calculus, makes some progress in this direction. We expand the scope of ProVerif, to provide reasoning abo...

In this paper, we consider the problem of building a theorem prover that is both open and extensible and that can function as a component of a larger system. We consider in particular three problems. Firstly the problem of conservatively and effectively extending the abstract syntax of the prover notation without compromising the underlying semantics. Secondly the problem of how to extend the d...

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We review EVES, a tool for supporting formal mathematical reasoning in general and for the development of formally veriied software in particular. The review concentrates on the following three aspects of EVES: its mathematicalfoundation, its software development method and its automated support. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of EVES, as well as some issues related to interactive theo...

Tree Transducers and Formal Methods (Dagstuhl Seminar 13192) Sebastian Maneth and Helmut Seidl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Information Visualization – Towards Multivariate Network Visualization (Dagstuhl Seminar 13201) Andreas Kerren, Helen C. Purchase, and Matthew O. Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Automated ...

Note: Most SVRC technical reports are available via anonymous ftp, from svrc.it.uq.edu.au in the directory /pub/techreports. Abstracts and compressed postscript les are available via Abstract The reenement calculus is a well-established theory for formal development of imperative program code and is supported by a number of automated tools. Via a detailed case study, this article shows how reen...

In state-of-the-art of MDE platforms semantic technologies such as ontologies are rarely used. Our aim is to understand the role of ontologies in supporting model-driven engineering, in particular MDE platforms. MDE platforms may benefit from semantic technologies in formal model semantics and automated reasoning on different levels of the metamodelling architecture. We present an ontology-awar...

The study of argumentation has undergone periods of decadence alternate with periods of renaissance. Currently, we are witnessing one of the latter, as proved by research flowering in many issues and aspects, both in Philosophy and in Artificial Intelligence. The work presented in this thesis is concerned in particular with “rhetorical argumentation”, which on the other hand has enjoyed conside...