In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexi...
Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Mey...
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...
The paper provides a recipe for adequately representing a very inclusive class of finite-valued logics by way of tableaux. The only requisite for applying the method is that the o...
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
Abstract—In semantic matchmaking processes it is often useful, when the obtained match is not full, to provide explanations for the mismatch, to leverage further interaction and/...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....