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CSFW
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using First-Order Logic to Reason about Policies
A policy describes the conditions under which an action is permitted or forbidden. We show that a fragment of (multi-sorted) first-order logic can be used to represent and reason...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Vicky Weissman
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Local closed world reasoning with description logics under the well-founded semantics
An important question for the upcoming Semantic Web is how to best combine open world ontology languages, such as the OWL-based ones, with closed world rule-based languages. One o...
Matthias Knorr, José Júlio Alferes, ...
ICMAS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Reasoning About Others: Representing and Processing Infinite Belief Hierarchies
In this paper we focus on the problem of how infinite belief hierarchies can be represented and reasoned with in a computationally tractable way. When modeling nested beliefs one ...
Sviatoslav Brainov, Tuomas Sandholm
ENTCS
2008
120views more  ENTCS 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Reasoning about B+ Trees with Operational Semantics and Separation Logic
The B+ tree is an ordered tree structure with a fringe list. It is the most widely used data structure for data organisation and searching in database systems specifically, and, p...
Alan P. Sexton, Hayo Thielecke
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Small bisimulations for reasoning about higher-order imperative programs
We introduce a new notion of bisimulation for showing contextual equivalence of expressions in an untyped lambda-calculus with an explicit store, and in which all expressed values...
Vasileios Koutavas, Mitchell Wand