Abstract. The preferential and rational consequence relations first studied by Lehmann and colleagues play a central role in non-monotonic reasoning, not least because they provid...
Defeasible logic is a simple but efficient rule-based non-monotonic logic. It has powerful implementations and shows promise to be applied in the areas of legal reasoning and the m...
Guido Governatori, Michael J. Maher, Grigoris Anto...
Knowledge representation languages that combine rules with object-oriented features akin to frame systems have recently attracted a lot of research interest, and F-logic is widely ...
An important question for the upcoming Semantic Web is how to best combine open world ontology languages, such as the OWL-based ones, with closed world rule-based languages. One o...
Abstract. Semantic Web Services were developed with the goal of automating the integration of business processes on the Web. The main idea is to express the functionality of the se...