We introduce an extension of Description Logics (DLs) for representing and reasoning about contextualized knowledge. Our formalism is inspired by McCarthy’s theory of formalizing...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
Abstract. The paper develops fuzzy attribute logic, i.e. a logic for reasoning about formulas of the form A ⇒ B where A and B are fuzzy sets of attributes. A formula A ⇒ B repr...
Yuri Gurevich and Itay Neeman proposed the Distributed Knowledge Authorization Language, DKAL, as an expressive, yet very succinctly expressible logic for distributed authorization...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...