The property that the executability and the effects of an action are determined entirely by the current state or situation is known as the Markov property and is assumed in most f...
Over the last fifteen years, database management systems (DBMSs) have been enhanced by the addition of rule-based programming to obtain active DBMSs. One of the greatest challeng...
Flat transactions with savepoints are a variation of the classical flat transactions that allows the user to go undo work done so far back to a certain point within the transacti...
A promising technique used in some planning systems to improve their performance is the use of domain dependent search control knowledge. We present a procedure for compiling sear...
We argue that the situation calculus is a natural formalism for representing and reasoning about control and strategic information. As a case study, in this paper we provide a sit...