We consider positive rules in which the conclusion may contain existentially quantified variables, which makes reasoning tasks (such as Deduction) undecidable. These rules have t...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
: Computer Assisted Surgery seeks data from various sources related to surgical knowledge, which is mostly represented in the form of discrete databases. However, databases serve a...
Goal-driven autonomy (GDA) is a conceptual model for creating an autonomous agent that monitors a set of expectations during plan execution, detects when discrepancies occur, buil...
Schema-based program transformation [8] has been proposed as an effective technique for the optimisation of logic programs. Schemata are applied to a logic program, mapping ineffi...