First-order modal logics, as traditionally formulated, are not expressive enough. It is this that is behind the difficulties in formulating a good analog of Herbrand’s Theorem, ...
In this chapter, we are concerned with the relationship between Description Logics and other formalisms, regardless of whether they were designed for knowledge representation issu...
Implicit invocation SN92, GN91] has become an important architectural style for large-scale system design and evolution. This paper addresses the lack of speci cation and veri cat...
: Matchmaking between offers and requests is an essential mechanism in electronic market places. Description Logics have been proposed as a appropriate framework for representing o...
We present a general approach for verifying safety properties of Lustre programs automatically. Key aspects of the approach are the choice of an expressive first-order logic in wh...