Defeasible logic is a system of reasoning in which rules have exceptions, and when rules conflict, the one that applies most specifically to the situation wins out. This paper repo...
ed Abstract an extended abstract of [11]. Service-oriented computing is emerging as a new paradigm based on autonomous, platform-independent computational entities, called services...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Rolf Hennicker, Martin Wir...
In this paper, we investigate technical methods to deal with exceptions, inconsistencies, and ambiguity. Existing reason maintenance systems are only suitable for some of these pr...
In many applications, such as decision support, negotiation, planning, scheduling, etc., one needs to express requirements that can only be partially satisfied. In order to expres...
Executable business process models build on the specification of process activities, their implemented business functions (e.g., Web services) and the control flow between these a...