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KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
On Measuring Plan Quality (A Preliminary Report)
By using an example from a robot navigating domain, we argue that to specify declaratively the behavior of an agent, we need to have a formal and explicit notion of \quality plans...
Fangzhen Lin
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Specifying Transactions for Extended Abduction
Extended abduction introduced by Inoue and Sakama (1995) generalizes traditional abduction in the sense that it can compute negative explanations by removing hypotheses from a non...
Katsumi Inoue, Chiaki Sakama
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using an Expressive Description Logic: FaCT or Fiction?
Description Logics form a family of formalisms closely related to semantic networks but with the distinguishing characteristic that the semantics of the concept description langua...
Ian Horrocks
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Foundations of Spatioterminological Reasoning with Description Logics
This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...
Volker Haarslev, Carsten Lutz, Ralf Möller
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Local Models Semantics, or Contextual Reasoning = Locality + Compatibility
In this paper we present a new semantics, called Local Models Semantics, and use it to provide a foundation to reasoning with contexts. This semantics captures and makes precise t...
Fausto Giunchiglia, Chiara Ghidini
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Comparing Consequence Relations
The technical problem addressed in this paper is, given two rule systems for consequence relations X and Y, how to construct Y-approximations of a given X-relation. While an upper...
Peter A. Flach
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Modal Semantics for Knowledge Bases Dealing with Vague Concepts
The paper investigates the characterisation of vague concepts within the framework of modal logic. This work builds on the supervaluation approach of Fine and exploits the idea of...
Brandon Bennett
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Complexity of Model Checking in Modal Event Calculi with Quantifiers
Iliano Cervesato, Massimo Franceschet, Angelo Mont...
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Description Logic Framework for Information Integration
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Len...