Over the last fifteen years, database management systems (DBMSs) have been enhanced by the addition of rule-based programming to obtain active DBMSs. One of the greatest challeng...
This paper presents the formal syntax and the operational semantics of Taverna, a workflow management system with a large user base among the e-Science community. Such formal foun...
Daniele Turi, Paolo Missier, Carole A. Goble, Davi...
Different rule semantics have been successively defined in many contexts such as implications in artificial intelligence, functional dependencies in databases or association rules...
We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general seman...
Marc Denecker, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
Abstract. The key to the integration of formal methods into engineering practice is education. In teaching, domain-independent problems -i.e., not requiring prior engineering backg...