Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical basis for terminological reasoning about objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly...
In a data word or a data tree each position carries a label from a finite alphabet and a data value from some infinite domain. These models have been considered in the realm of sem...
Ford has introduced a non-monotonic logic, System LS, inspired by an empirical study of human non-monotonic reasoning. We define here a defeasible logic FDL based on Ford’s logi...
Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
Context-sensitivity has been for long a subject of study in linguistics, logic and computer science. Recently the problem of representing and reasoning with contextual knowledge ha...