The availability of techniques for comparing descriptions has many applications in Artificial Intelligence, ranging from description selection to flexible matching, from instance...
Stefano Ferilli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Nic...
Databases may not satisfy integrity constraints (ICs) for several reasons. Nevertheless, in most of the cases an important part of the data is still consistent wrt certain desired...
Narrowing-driven partial evaluation is a powerful technique for the specialization of (first-order) functional and functional logic programs. However, although it gives good resu...
I present a formalism that combines two methodologies: objective Bayesianism and Bayesian nets. According to objective Bayesianism, an agent’s degrees of belief (i) ought to sat...
: While some information modeling approaches (e.g. the Relational Model, and Object-Role Modeling) are typically formalized using first-order logic, other approaches to information...