: The evolution of software systems often produces incompatibilities with existing data and applications. To prevent incompatibilities, changes have to be wellplanned, and develope...
If we are to take the notion of speech act seriously, we must be able to treat speech acts as acts. In what follows, I will try to model changes brought about by various acts of co...
Ontology evolution is a complex problem. In our work, we focus on issues related to change management, particularly consistency maintenance and we present in this paper, an overvie...
In this paper we investigate how to represent and reason about legal abrogations and annulments in Defeasible Logic. We examine some options that embed in this setting, and in simi...
Architects use cycle-by-cycle simulation to evaluate design choices and understand tradeoffs and interactions among design parameters. Efficiently exploring exponential-size desig...
Engin Ipek, Sally A. McKee, Rich Caruana, Bronis R...