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TCS
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Alternating states for dual nondeterminism in imperative programming
The refinement calculus of Back, Morgan, Morris, and others is based on monotone predicate transformers (weakest preconditions) where conjunctions stand for demonic choices betwee...
Wim H. Hesselink
LICS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Separation Logic: A Logic for Shared Mutable Data Structures
In joint work with Peter O’Hearn and others, based on early ideas of Burstall, we have developed an extension of Hoare logic that permits reasoning about low-level imperative pr...
John C. Reynolds
ECSQARU
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Connecting Lexicographic with Maximum Entropy Entailment
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...
Rachel A. Bourne, Simon Parsons
LPNMR
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Comparison of Sceptical NAF-Free Logic Programming Approaches
Recently there has been increased interest in logic programming-based default reasoning approaches which are not using negation-as-failure in their object language. Instead, defau...
Grigoris Antoniou, Michael J. Maher, David Billing...
KR
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Foundations of Spatioterminological Reasoning with Description Logics
This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...
Volker Haarslev, Carsten Lutz, Ralf Möller