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FOIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
What is a Biological Function?
This paper examines the concepts biological function (BF) and functioning as they are used in recent work on formal ontology and its applications in the biomedical domain. My purpo...
Patricia Diaz-Herrera
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
A Qualitative Physics Compiler
Predicting the behavior of physical systems is essential to both common sense and engineering tasks. It is made especially challenging by the lack of complete precise knowledge of...
Adam Farquhar
CORR
2011
Springer
190views Education» more  CORR 2011»
12 years 12 months ago
Compiling Causal Theories to Successor State Axioms and STRIPS-Like Systems
We describe a system for specifying the effects of actions. Unlike those commonly used in AI planning, our system uses an action description language that allows one to specify t...
Fangzhen Lin
CHARME
2001
Springer
133views Hardware» more  CHARME 2001»
14 years 22 days ago
View from the Fringe of the Fringe
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...
Steven D. Johnson
ICFCA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Computing Intensions of Digital Library Collections
We model a Digital Library as a formal context in which objects are documents and attributes are terms describing documents contents. A formal concept is very close to the notion o...
Carlo Meghini, Nicolas Spyratos