In the context of the Semantic Web, several approaches to the combination of ontologies, given in terms of theories of classical first-order logic, and rule bases have been propo...
Jos de Bruijn, Thomas Eiter, Axel Polleres, Hans T...
N IN AN ABSTRACTION SPACE: A Form of Constructive Induction George Drastal and Gabor Czako Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories 755 College Rd Princeton, NJ 08540 We repor...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...
Schemata have played important roles in logic since Aristotle's Prior Analytics. The syllogistic figures and moods can be taken to be argument schemata as can the rules of the...
It has been recognised that formal methods are useful as a modelling tool in requirements engineering. Specification languages such as Z permit the precise and unambiguous modell...