Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a formalism for reasoning about time and change in a logic programming framework. From a description of events which occur in the...
The objective of entity identification is to determine the correspondence between object instances from more than one database. This paper ezamines the problem at the instance lev...
At the heart of most computer systems is a file system. The file system contains user data, executable programs, configuration and authorization information, and (usually) the bas...
We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
Ordinary logical implication is not enough for answering queries in a logic database, since especially negative information is only implicitly represented in the database state. M...