The problem of integrating information from con icting sources comes up in many current applications, such as cooperative information systems, heterogeneous databases, and multi-a...
The impossibility of current spatial database systems and GIS to handle spatial vagueness and imprecision has been recognized as an important problem in the spatial database domai...
In previous work, the so-called Temporal Equilibrium Logic (TEL) was introduced. This formalism provides an extension of the Answer Set semantics for logic programs to arbirary the...
We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based o...
Abstract: An experiment in providing volunteer cloud computing support for automated audits of open source code is described here, along with the supporting theory. Certification a...