Abstract. In this paper, following the work of Hare, we consider moral reasoning not as the application of moral norms and principles, but as reasoning about what ought to be done ...
A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
We present extended conceptual logic programs (ECLPs), for which reasoning is decidable and, moreover, can be reduced to finite answer set programming. ECLPs are useful to reason ...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
We present an approach to integrating rules and ontologies on the basis of the first-order stable model semantics defined by Ferraris, Lee and Lifschitz. We show that a few exist...
If one has attributed certain initial beliefs to an agent, it is sometimes possible to reason about further beliefs the agent must hold by observing what conclusions one's ow...