We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general seman...
Marc Denecker, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
Direction relations between extended spatial objects are important commonsense knowledge. Recently, Goyal and Egenhofer proposed a formal model, called Cardinal Direction Calculus...
Fluent model checking is an automated technique for verifying that an event-based operational model satisfies some state-based declarative properties. The link between the event-b...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
In bitemporal databases, current facts and transaction states are modelled using a special value to represent the current time (such as a minimum or maximum timestamp or NULL). Pr...
Abstract. Failures are unavoidable in many circumstances. For example, an agent may fail at some point to perform a task in a dynamic environment. Robust systems typically have mec...