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2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Preferential Semantics for Plausible Subsumption in Possibility Theory
Handling exceptions in a knowledge-based system has been considered as an important issue in many domains of applications, such as medical domain. In this paper, we propose severa...
Guilin Qi, Zhizheng Zhang
AI
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Belief functions and default reasoning
We present a new approach to dealing with default information based on the theory of belief functions. Our semantic structures, inspired by Adams' -semantics, are epsilon-beli...
Salem Benferhat, Alessandro Saffiotti, Philippe Sm...
ELP
1991
14 years 4 days ago
Natural Semantics and Some of Its Meta-Theory in Elf
Operational semantics provide a simple, high-level and elegant means of specifying interpreters for programming languages. In natural semantics, a form of operational semantics, p...
Spiro Michaylov, Frank Pfenning
DKE
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Proof explanation for a nonmonotonic Semantic Web rules language
In this work, we present the design and implementation of a system for proof explanation in the Semantic Web, based on defeasible reasoning. Trust is a vital feature for Semantic ...
Grigoris Antoniou, Antonis Bikakis, Nikos Dimaresi...
JAIR
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Distributed Reasoning in a Peer-to-Peer Setting: Application to the Semantic Web
In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...
Philippe Adjiman, Philippe Chatalic, Franço...