Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occ...
Roberto Bagnara, Roberta Gori, Patricia M. Hill, E...
Web and peer-to-peer systems have emerged as popular areas in distributed computing, and their integrated usage permits the benefits of both to be exploited. While much work in th...
In this paper we argue that for realistic applications involving default reasoning it is necessary to reason about the priorities of defaults. Existing approaches require the know...
Abstract. We aim to demonstrate that automated deduction techniques, in particular those following the model computation paradigm, are very well suited for database schema/query re...
Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, Margret Gro&szl...
Abstract. In classical approaches to knowledge representation, reasoners are assumed to derive all the logical consequences of their knowledge base. As a result, reasoning in the ï...