FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Automatic debugging of UML class diagrams helps in the visual specification of software systems because users cannot detect errors in logical inconsistency easily. This p...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
It is claimed in [45] that first-order theorem provers are not efficient for reasoning with ontologies based on description logics compared to specialised description logic reasone...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We extend the open answer set semantics for programs with generalized literals. Such extended programs (EPs) have interesting properties, e.g. the ability to express infi...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists....
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is on query modification: ...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents a semantic foundation of temporal conceptual models used to design temporal information systems. We consider a modeling language able to express both timestampi...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we present a syntactic method for solving firstorder equational constraints over term algebras. The presented method exploits a novel notion of quasi-solve...