Abstract--This paper summarizes results on a recently introduced family of Datalog-based languages, called Datalog+/-, which is a new framework for tractable ontology querying, and...
Abstract. Ontology reasoning is an indispensable step to fully exploit the implicit semantics of Semantic Web data. The inherent distribution characteristic of the Semantic Web and...
Abstract. Proof-carrying code and other applications in computer security require machine-checkable proofs of properties of machine-language programs. These in turn require axioms ...
Abstract Read-write locking is an important mechanism to improve concurrent granularity, but it is difficult to reason about the safety of concurrent programs with read-write locks...
Decision making models for autonomous agents have received increased attention, particularly in the field of intelligent robots. In this paper we will show how a Defeasible Logic ...