Classical warranty plans require crisp data obtained from strictly controlled reliability tests. However, in a real situation these requirements might not be fulfilled. In an extre...
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
We present a sound and complete logic for reasoning about SimpleAPL programs. SimpleAPL is a fragment of the agent programming language 3APL designed for the implementation of cog...
Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan, John...
Mechanical systems, of the kinds which are of interest for qualitative reasoning, are characterized by a set of real-valued parameters, each of which is a piecewise continuous fun...
We often reach conclusions partially on the basis that we do not have evidence that the conclusion is false. A newspaper story warning that the local water supply has been contamin...