The two main types of law are legislation and precedents. Both types have a corresponding reasoning pattern determining legal consequences: legislation can be applied and precedent...
We present a vision of smart, goal-oriented web services that reason about other services’ policies and evaluate the possibility of future interactions. We assume web services wh...
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, ...
We propose a systematic investigation on how to modify a preference relation in a defeasible logic theory to change the conclusions of the theory itself. We argue that the approach...
Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Simone Scan...
Abstract. Starting from algebraic properties that enable guessing lowentropy secrets, we formalize guessing rules for symbolic verification. The rules are suited for both off-line ...
Undefined terms involving the application of partial functions and operators are common in program specifications and in discharging proof obligations that arise in design. One wa...