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KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Finding Explanations of Inconsistency in Multi-Context Systems
We provide two approaches for explaining inconsistency in multi-context systems, where decentralized and heterogeneous system parts interact via nonmonotonic bridge rules. Inconsi...
Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Peter Schüller, A...
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Preferential Semantics for Plausible Subsumption in Possibility Theory
Handling exceptions in a knowledge-based system has been considered as an important issue in many domains of applications, such as medical domain. In this paper, we propose severa...
Guilin Qi, Zhizheng Zhang
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Abstract Dialectical Frameworks
Gerhard Brewka, Stefan Woltran
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a Logic of Feature-Based Semantic Science Theories
The aim of semantic science is to allow for the publications of ontologies, observation data, and hypotheses/theories. Hypotheses make predictions on data and on new cases. Those ...
David Poole
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Walking the Decidability Line for Rules with Existential Variables
We consider positive rules in which the conclusion may contain existentially quantified variables, which makes reasoning tasks (such as Deduction) undecidable. These rules have t...
Jean-François Baget, Michel LeClere, Marie-...
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Taxonomy of Improvement Operators and the Problem of Minimal Change
Improvement operators is a family of belief change operators that is a generalization of usual iterated belief revision operators. The idea is to relax the success property, so th...
Sébastien Konieczny, Mattia Medina Grespan,...
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modelling Combinatorial Auctions in Linear Logic
We show that linear logic can serve as an expressive framework in which to model a rich variety of combinatorial auction mechanisms. Due to its resource-sensitive nature, linear l...
Daniele Porello, Ulle Endriss
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query and Predicate Emptiness in Description Logics
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Logical Understanding of Legal Interpretation
If compliance with a norm does not achieve its purpose, then its applicability must dynamically be restricted or expanded. Legal interpretation is a mechanism from law allowing no...
Guido Boella, Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, ...
KR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Combined Approach to Query Answering in DL-Lite
Roman Kontchakov, Carsten Lutz, David Toman, Frank...