As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
Abstract. The two puzzles are the Lottery Paradox and the Amalgamation Paradox, which both point out difficulties for aggregating uncertain information. A generalization of the lot...
The paper presents a prototype system HD-Rules (Hybrid integration of Description Logic and Rules) that integrates normal clauses under the wellfounded semantics with ontologies sp...
Wlodzimierz Drabent, Jakob Henriksson, Jan Maluszy...
The latest ontology languages can be translated into a description logic (DL), thus providing them with a formal semantics and associated reasoning procedures. We introduce the or...
Constructive negation has been proved to be a valid alternative to negation as failure, especially when negation is required to have, in a sense, an `active' role. In this pa...