Explicit preferences on assumptions as used in prioritized circumscription [McCarthy, 1986; Lifschitz, 1985; Grosof, 1991] and preferred subtheories [Brewka, 1989] provide a clear...
Self-adapting software adapts its behavior in an autonomic way, by dynamically adding, suppressing and recomposing components, and by the use of computational reflection. One way t...
Abstract. ID-Logic is a knowledge representation language that extends first-order logic with non-monotone inductive definitions. This paper introduces an ID-Logic based framewor...
Multi-valued model-checking is an extension of classical model-checking to reasoning about systems with uncertain information, which are common during early design stages. The addi...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...