Abstract. A fundamental and unanalysed logical concept is substitution. This seemingly innocuous operation -- substituting a variable for a term or valuating a variable to an eleme...
We introduce a logical verification framework for checking functional properties of service-oriented applications formally specified using the service specification language COWS. ...
Abstract-- We consider the problem of optimal netlist simplification in the presence of constraints. Because constraints restrict the reachable states of a netlist, they may enhanc...
Abstract. We study the problem of instance level (ABox) updates for Knowledge Bases (KBs) represented in Description Logics of the DL-Lite family. DLLite is at the basis of OWL 2 Q...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
In this paper, we will study semantics that have been used for conditionals in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning: A purely qualitative semantics based on the popu...