The two main types of law are legislation and precedents. Both types have a corresponding reasoning pattern determining legal consequences: legislation can be applied and precedent...
A system for the acquisition, storage, indexing, and retrieval of map images is presented. The input to this system are raster images of separate map layers and map composites. A ...
It is common to view programs as a combination of logic and control: the logic part de nes what the program must do, the control part how to do it. The Logic Programming paradigm ...
In this paper we describe a tools environment which automates the validation and maintenance of a requirements model written in many-sorted first order logic. We focus on: a trans...
The availability of techniques for comparing descriptions has many applications in Artificial Intelligence, ranging from description selection to flexible matching, from instance...
Stefano Ferilli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Nic...