Given the numerous knowledge representation models (KR-schemes) that have been proposed, it would be desirable to have a formal, unifying model for the description of a KR-scheme,...
A logic of conditional preferences is defined, with a language which allows the compact representation of certain kinds of conditional preference statements, a semantics and a pro...
We describe the expressive power of temporal branching time logics that use the modalities EX and EF. We give a forbidden pattern characterization of the tree languages definable...
We propose a formal framework for extending a class-based language, equipped with a given class composition mechanism, to allow programmers to define their own derived composition...
In 1984, Peter Patel-Schneider published a paper [1] entitled Small can be Beautiful in Knowledge Representation in which he advocated for limiting the expressive power of knowledg...