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AI
2004
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Conditional logic of actions and causation
In this paper we present a new approach to reason about actions and causation which is based on a conditional logic. The conditional implication is interpreted as causal implicati...
Laura Giordano, Camilla Schwind
RR
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Usability of a Visual Language for DL Concept Descriptions
The development and use of ontologies may require users with no training in formal logic to handle complex concept descriptions. To aid such users, we propose a new visualization f...
Fernando Náufel do Amaral
RWEB
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Reasoning and Explanation in EL and in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formalism underlying the standard web ontology language OWL 2. DLs have formal semantics which are the basis for powerful reasoning services. In th...
Anni-Yasmin Turhan
POPL
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Extensional normalisation and type-directed partial evaluation for typed lambda calculus with sums
We present a notion of -long ? -normal term for the typed lambda calculus with sums and prove, using Grothendieck logical relations, that every term is equivalent to one in norm...
Vincent Balat, Roberto Di Cosmo, Marcelo P. Fiore
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PODS
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Provenance semirings
We show that relational algebra calculations for incomplete databases, probabilistic databases, bag semantics and whyprovenance are particular cases of the same general algorithms...
Todd J. Green, Gregory Karvounarakis, Val Tannen