The usefulness of design patterns in forward engineering is already well-known and several tools provide support for their application in the development of software systems. Whil...
It is well-known that knowledgebases may contain inconsistencies. We provide a measure to quantify the inconsistency of a knowledgebase, thereby allowing for the comparison of the...
This paper surveys terminological representation languages and feature-based unification grammars pointing out the similarities and differences between these two families of att...
We introduce the class of Rigid Tree Automata (RTA), an extension of standard bottom-up automata on ranked trees with distinguished states called rigid. Rigid states define a res...
This article reviews formal systems that regulate persuasion dialogues. In such dialogues two or more participants aim to resolve a difference of opinion, each trying to persuade ...