We re-examine vacuity in temporal logic model checking. We note two disturbing phenomena in recent results in this area. The first indicates that not all vacuities detected in prac...
Abstract Read-write locking is an important mechanism to improve concurrent granularity, but it is difficult to reason about the safety of concurrent programs with read-write locks...
Machine Learning systems are often distinguished according to the kind of representation they use, which can be either propositional or first-order logic. The framework working wi...
Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Floriana Esposito, N...
Abstract. Both in classical logic and in Answer Set Programming, inconsistency is characterized by non existence of a model. Whereas every formula is a theorem for inconsistent set...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...