We propose a system synthesis method which bridges the gap between a highly abstract functional model and an efficient hardware or software implementation. The functional model is...
Knowledge representation in logics, even in the order-sorted logic that includes a sort hierarchy, tends to lose the conciseness and the nuances of natural language. If we could c...
Among the formalisms for qualitative spatial reasoning, the Region Connection Calculus and its variant, the constraint algebra RCC8, have received particular attention recently. A...
A strand is a sequence of events; it represents either the execution of legitimate party in a security protocol or else a sequence of actions by a penetrator. A strand space is a ...
F. Javier Thayer, Jonathan C. Herzog, Joshua D. Gu...
We study revision programming, a logic-based mechanism for enforcing constraints on databases. The central concept of this approach is that of a justi ed revision based on a revisi...
V. Wiktor Marek, Inna Pivkina, Miroslaw Truszczyns...