In this paper we analyze the relationship between cyclic definitions and consistency in GelfondLifschitz's answer sets semantics (initially defined as `stable model semantics...
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
We rst review thebasic properties of the well knownclasses of Toeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde, and other related structured matrices and reexamine their correlation to operations wi...
The fact that objects in the world appear in different ways depending on the scale of observation has important implications if one aims at describing them. It shows that the not...
Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...