Modern science is collecting massive amounts of data from sensors, instruments, and through computer simulation. It is widely believed that analysis of this data will hold the key ...
Abstract. Many recent works point out that there are several possibilities of assigning a meaning to a concept definition containing some sort of recursion. In this paper, we argue...
Commonsense knowledge often omits the temporal incidence of facts, and even the ordering between occurrences is only available for some of their instances. Reasoning about the temp...
We present a goal replacement rule whose main applicability condition is based on termination properties of the resulting transformed program. The goal replacement rule together wi...
This paper attempts to de ne an object-oriented database system. It describes the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an objectoriented databas...