Abstract. Program certiļ¬cation techniques formally show that programs satisfy certain safety policies. They rely on the correctness of the safety policy which has to be establish...
Abstract. Abductive Logic Programming (ALP) and Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) share the feature to constrain the set of possible solutions to a program via integrity or CLP co...
In prior work we introduced a pure type assignment system that encompasses a rich set of property types, including intersections, unions, and universally and existentially quantif...
Abstract. In classical approaches to knowledge representation, reasoners are assumed to derive all the logical consequences of their knowledge base. As a result, reasoning in the ļ...
Practical applications of description logics (DLs) in knowledge-based systems have forced us to introduce the following features which are absent from existing DLs: ā¢ allowing a...