Abstract. This paper describes how high level implementations of (needed) narrowing into Prolog can be improved by analysing definitional trees. First, we introduce a refined repre...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
The standard reasoning problem, concept satisfiability, in the basic description logic ALC is PSPACE-complete, and it is EXPTIMEcomplete in the presence of unrestricted axioms. Sev...
Abstract. The use of formal methods provides confidence in the correctness of developments. Yet one may argue about the actual level of confidence obtained when the method itself...
objects, like elements of (abstract) data types in ordinary programming languages In the theory of abstract data types most often one only considers algebraic structures where all ...