In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...
ct 9 The benefits of modular representations are well known from many areas of computer science. While in software engi10 neering modularization is mainly a vehicle for supporting...
It was recently proved that a sound and complete qualitative simulator does not exist, that is, as long as the input-output vocabulary of the state-of-the-art QSIM algorithm is us...
Abstract. We review key constraints in the context of XML as introduced by Buneman et al. We show that one of the proposed inference rules is not sound in general, and the axiomati...
Decision procedures for combinations of theories are at the core of many modern theorem provers such as ACL2, Ehdm, PVS, SIMPLIFY, the Stanford Pascal Verifier, STeP, SVC, and Z/Ev...