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AAAI
2000
15 years 5 months ago
DATALOG with Constraints - An Answer-Set Programming System
Answer-set programming (ASP) has emerged recently as a viable programming paradigm well attuned to search problems in AI, constraint satisfaction and combinatorics. Propositional ...
Deborah East, Miroslaw Truszczynski
LICS
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Complete Axioms for Categorical Fixed-Point Operators
We give an axiomatic treatment of fixed-point operators in categories. A notion of iteration operator is defined, embodying the equational properties of iteration theories. We p...
Alex K. Simpson, Gordon D. Plotkin
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
15 years 8 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Use of rational numbers in the design of robust geometric primitives for three-dimensional spatial database systems
A necessary step in the implementation of three-dimensional spatial data types for spatial database systems and GIS is the development of robust geometric primitives. The authors ...
Brian E. Weinrich, Markus Schneider
DBPL
1993
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Octopus: A Reflective Language Mechanism for Object Manipulation
A class of database programs exist which are required to operate over an infinite number of types; included in this class are object browsers and query tools. The types over which...
Alex Farkas, Alan Dearle