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The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is a standard notation to capture decision logic in business applications in general and business processes in particular. A central construct in DMN is that of a decision table. The increasing use of…

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Executable semantic parsing is the task of converting natural language utterances into logical forms that can be directly used as queries to get a response. We build a transfer learning framework for executable semantic parsing. We show…

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The transition from user requirements to UML diagrams is a difficult task for the designer especially when he handles large texts expressing these needs. Modeling class Diagram must be performed frequently, even during the development of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Hatem Herchi , Wahiba Ben Abdessalem

Workflows constitute an important language to represent knowledge about processes, but also increasingly to reason on such knowledge. On the other hand, there is a limit to which time constraints between activities can be expressed.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Valmi Dufour-Lussier , Florence Le Ber , Jean Lieber

Formal analysis to ensure adherence of software to defined architectural constraints is not yet broadly used within software development, due to the effort involved in defining formal architecture models. Within this paper, we outline…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Steffen Herbold , Christoph Knieke , Andreas Rausch , Christian Schindler

This article provides a brief overview of the UML SP (UML Scientific Profile). It is an Object-Oriented Simulation Language and may find usage in OOS and ABS. UML SP allows for the application of Unified Process methodology for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Vasyliy I. Gurianov

Distributional semantic models have become a mainstay in NLP, providing useful features for downstream tasks. However, assessing long-term progress requires explicit long-term goals. In this paper, I take a broad linguistic perspective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Guy Emerson

Even if the verification of authentication protocols can be achieved by means of formal analysis, the modelling of such an activity is an error-prone task due to the lack of automated and integrated processes. This paper proposes a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Mariapia Raimondo , Stefano Marrone , Angelo Palladino

In this paper, we describe a system for generating three-dimensional visual simulations of natural language motion expressions. We use a rich formal model of events and their participants to generate simulations that satisfy the minimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Nikhil Krishnaswamy , James Pustejovsky

Currently many different modeling languages are used for workflow definitions in BPM systems. Authors of this paper analyze the two most popular graphical languages, with highest possibility of wide practical usage - UML Activity diagrams…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Audris Kalnins , Valdis Vitolins

A domain specific language (DSL) abstracts from implementation details and is aligned with the way domain experts reason about a software component. The development of DSLs is usually centered around a grammar and transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Sarmen Keshishzadeh , Arjan J. Mooij , Jozef Hooman

This document reports on the use of an algebraic, visual, formal approach to the specification of patterns for the formalization of the GoF design patterns. The approach is based on graphs, morphisms and operations from category theory and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-03-18 Paolo Bottoni , Esther Guerra , Juan de Lara

In software engineering processes, systems are first specified using a modeling language such as UML. These initial designs are often collaboratively created, many times in meetings where different domain experts use whiteboards, paper or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Aaron Conrardy , Jordi Cabot

The development of mechanised language specification based on structured operational semantics, with applications to verified compilers and sound program analysis, requires huge effort. General theory and frameworks have been proposed to…

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Scientists construct and analyze computational models to understand the world. That understanding comes from efforts to augment, combine, and compare models of related phenomena. We propose SemanticModels.jl, a system that leverages…

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Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard for requirements modeling and system design. UML as a visual language can tremendously help customers, project managers, and developers to specify the requirements of a target system.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yilong Yang , Jing Yang , Xiaoshan Li

Formal analysis of functional and non-functional requirements is crucial in automotive systems. The behaviors of those systems often rely on complex dynamics as well as on stochastic behaviors. We have proposed a probabilistic extension of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Li Huang , Tian Liang , Eun-Young Kang

In software system design, one of the purposes of diagrammatic modeling is to explain something (e.g., data tables) to others. Very often, syntax of diagrams is specified while the intended meaning of diagrammatic constructs remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

A formal theory based on a binary operator of directional associative relation is constructed in the article and an understanding of an associative normal form of image constructions is introduced. A model of a commutative semigroup, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Oleg Bisikalo , Irina Kravchuk

ODRL is a popular XML-based language for stating the conditions under which resources can be accessed legitimately. The language is described in English and, as a result, agreements written in ODRL are open to interpretation. To address…

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