Refinement operators for theories avoid the problems related to the myopia of many relational learning algorithms based on the operators that refine single clauses. However, the n...
Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli, Nicola Di Mauro, ...
Objective: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how a formal spatial theory can be used as an important tool for disambiguating the spatial information embodied in biomed...
The focus of the paper is on the logic of clarity and the problem of higherorder vagueness. We first examine the consequences of the notion of intransitivity of indiscriminabilit...
Given that most elementary problems in database design are NP-hard, the currently used database design algorithms produce suboptimal results. For example, the current 3NF decompos...
Abstract. In answer-set programming (ASP), many notions of program equivalence have been introduced and formally analysed. A particular line of research in this direction aims at s...