In the multi-agent systems community, dependence theory and game theory are often presented as two alternative perspectives on the analysis of social interaction. Up till now no r...
Craig interpolation has become a versatile tool in formal verification, for instance to generate intermediate assertions for safety analysis of programs. Interpolants are typically...
There have been many approaches proposed for role mining. However, the problems solved often differ due to a lack of consensus on the formal definition of the role mining problem....
The AGM postulates for belief revision, augmented by the DP postulates for iterated belief revision, provide generally accepted criteria for the design of operators by which intel...
We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is query modification: a query tran...