The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
We investigate rule dependency graphs and their colorings for characterizing the computation of answer sets of logic programs. To this end, we develop a series of operational chara...
Abstract. Good tree search algorithms are a key requirement for inference engines of rule languages. As Prolog exemplifies, inference engines based on traditional uninformed searc...
We consider continuous quantities that are used to describe the physical world, such as colour, shape, sound, texture, and spatial and temporal arrangements. Natural languages are...