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—Reasoning by interrogation is one of the most ancient and experimented ways of reasoning. Originated by the Aristotelian elenchus, it has been used for many purposes, such as th...
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Filtering denotes any method whereby an agent updates its belief state--its knowledge of the state of the world--from a sequence of actions and observations. In logical filtering,...
The use of ontologies in various application domains, such as Data Integration, the Semantic Web, or ontology-based data management, where ontologies provide the access to large a...
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Answer-set programming (ASP) solvers must handle difficult computational problems that are NP-hard. These solvers are in the worst case exponential and their scope of applicabilit...
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