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The known approaches to object specification based on first-order temporal logic fail in capturing the often occurring need to change the dynamic behaviour of a system during lifetime of that system. Usually all possible behaviours have to be described in advance, i.e. at specification time. Therefore, we here present an extension going beyond first-order temporal logic. Now, it becomes possible to specify ways of dynamically changing the behaviour of a system during lifetime. This can be done by giving each object an additional (non-first-order) attribute. The value of this attribute contains a set of first-order formulas being the currently valid behaviour specification. In addition, this approach can easily be extended for introducing a way of default reasoning.
This research has been supported in part by the European Commission through Esprit ModelAge (No. 8319), ASPIRE (No. 22704) and FIREworks (No. 23531).
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Conrad, S., Saake, G. (1997). Extending temporal logic for capturing evolving behaviour. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_6
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