A specification theory combines notions of specifications and implementations with a satisfaction relation, a refinement relation and a set of operators supporting stepwise design...
Alexandre David, Kim G. Larsen, Axel Legay, Ulrik ...
Operational semantics provide a simple, high-level and elegant means of specifying interpreters for programming languages. In natural semantics, a form of operational semantics, p...
Shimojima and Katagiri have demonstrated that diagrams reduce "inferential load" during reasoning by scaffolding visual-spatial aspects of memory. In response, we wondere...
In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions o...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
It is important nowadays to provide guidance for individuals or organizations to improve their knowledge according to their objectives, especially in the case of incomplete cogniti...