Making correct access-control decisions is central to security, which in turn requires accounting correctly for the identity, credentials, roles, authority, and privileges of users...
Thumrongsak Kosiyatrakul, Susan Older, Shiu-Kai Ch...
To reason effectively about programs, it is important to have some version of a transitive-closure operator so that we can describe such notions as the set of nodes reachable from ...
Neil Immerman, Alexander Moshe Rabinovich, Thomas ...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...
Several real-world applications need to effectively manage and reason about large amounts of data that are inherently uncertain. For instance, pervasive computing applications mus...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Minos N. Gar...