Abstract, We consider the problem of integrating Reiter's default logic into terminological representation systems. It turns out that such an integration is less straightforwa...
We present an approach to combining three areas of research which we claim are all based on information theory: knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sc...
c specifications provide a powerful method for the specification of abstract data types in programming languages and software systems. Completeness and ground confluence are fundam...
As the popularity of areas including document storage and distributed systems continues to grow, the demand for high performance XML databases is increasingly evident. This has le...
A uniform verification problem for parameterized systems is to determine whether a temporal property is satisfied for every instance of the system which is composed of an arbitrar...