Commitment to an ontological perspective is a primary aspect of reasoning about the physical world. For complex analytic tasks, the ability to switch between different ontologies ...
This paper presents a formal method based on the high-level semantics of processes to reason about continuous change. With a case study we show how the semantics of processes can b...
When a new component is added to an existing, distributed system, it has to co-operate with existing components in a way that doesn’t interfere badly with the original system. A...
Abstract. Representing and reasoning about orientation information is an important aspect of qualitative spatial reasoning. We present a novel approach for dealing with intrinsic o...
We describe an approach to using one logic to reason about specifications written in a second logic. One level of logic, called the "reasoning logic", is used to state th...