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1993
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
A lambda calculus of objects and method specialization
This paper presents an untyped lambda calculus, extended with object primitives that reflect the capabilities of so-called delegation-based object-oriented languages. A type infer...
John C. Mitchell, Furio Honsell, Kathleen Fisher
AGP
1994
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
What the Event Calculus actually does, and how to do it efficiently
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a formalism for reasoning about time and change in a logic programming framework. From a description of events which occur in the...
Iliano Cervesato, Luca Chittaro, Angelo Montanari
ER
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagrams for Representing Moving Objects
The idea of Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagram (CND) has proved its relevance in the areas of qualitative reasoning about time and qualitative reasoning about space. In this work, a ...
Nico Van de Weghe, Philippe De Maeyer
FLAIRS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
The Degradation of Knowledge Base Integrity
In a unified knowledge representation data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as "items". Objects are item building operators. Items an...
John K. Debenham
IANDC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Deciding expressive description logics in the framework of resolution
We present a decision procedure for the description logic SHIQ based on the basic superposition calculus, and show that it runs in exponential time for unary coding of numbers. To...
Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Motik, Ulrike Sattler