Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with "objective" knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there ha...
This paper examines the problem of adding non-deterministic constructs to a declarative database language based on Horn Clause Logic. We revise a previously proposed approach, the...
Software systems are subject to ever increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The concept of organization as an exand abstract real-world reference presents a pr...
Abstract We present a datatype package that enables the shallow embedding technique to object-oriented specification and programming languages. This datatype package incrementally ...
This paper presents an approach to create POMDP models, used for decision making by an autonomous service robot, from background knowledge. This allows the power of POMDP decision ...