This article provides an experimental analysis of the possibilistic handling of default rules. Three different nonmonotonic consequence relations are considered: minimum specifici...
An approach to nonmonotonic inference, based on preference orderings between possible worlds or states of affairs, is presented. We begin with an extant weak theory of default con...
Abstract. The coupling of description logic reasoning systems with other reasoning formalisms (possibly over the Web) is becoming an important research issue and calls for advanced...
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Roman Schindla...
In this paper, we investigate technical methods to deal with exceptions, inconsistencies, and ambiguity. Existing reason maintenance systems are only suitable for some of these pr...
This paper describes a default-logic framework (plausibility schemas) and software tools (Decision ApprenticeTM and Legal ApprenticeTM ) for modeling, guiding and automating the r...