In this paper we present a purely semantic view on non-monotonic reasoning. We follow the direction pointed in [16] and claim that any non-monotonic logic can be viewed as a resul...
— Constraints play an important role in the efficient query evaluation in deductive databases. In this paper, constraint-based query evaluation in deductive databases is investi...
Locality is a standard notion of finite model theory. There are two well known flavors of it, based on Hanf's and Gaifman's theorems. Essentially they say that structure...
In our paper titled "Algebraic Signal Processing Theory: Foundation and 1-D Time" appearing in this issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, we presented the ...
The ForSyDe methodology has been developed for system level design. In this paper we present formal transformation methods for the refinement of an abstract and formal system mode...