Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
We describe “Belvedere,” a system to support students engaged in critical discussion of science and public policy issues. The design is intended to address cognitive and metac...
Massimo Paolucci, Daniel D. Suthers, Arlene Weiner
Abstract. This paper studies a technique for mapping ALCI knowledge bases into ALC. Worst-case optimal tableau-based procedures for the satisfiability/consistency problem w.r.t. g...
Abstract. We present a new proof of decidability of higher-order subtyping in the presence of bounded quantification. The algorithm is formulated as a judgement which operates on b...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new way to preprocess Boolean formulae in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF). In contrast to most of the current pre-processing techniques, our app...