Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
Abstract. During the recent years, the development of tools for deciding Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBFs) has been accompanied by a steady supply of real-world instances, i.e., ...
Abstract. Enterprise delegates Agents’ Negotiation is a simpler task if the enterprises involved in the transaction have homogeneous representation structures as well as the same...
Allen’s interval calculus is one of the most prominent formalisms in the domain of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Applications of this calculus, however, are restric...
Abstract— An ontology is a formal language adequately representing the knowledge used for reasoning in a specific environment. When contradictions arise and make ontologies inad...