Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
This paper2 details the stages of building a substantial, carefully specified, fully tested and fully operational university and school timetabling system. This is reported as a c...
Incorporating constraints into a reactive BDI agent programming language can lead to better expressive capabilities as well as more efficient computation (in some instances). More...
Abstract. Most specification languages express only qualitative constraints. However, among two implementations that satisfy a given specification, one may be preferred to another....
Roderick Bloem, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. H...
One of the more tedious and complex tasks during the specification of conceptual schemas (CSs) is modeling the operations that define the system behavior. This paper aims to simpl...