We give semantic characterizations of the expressive power of navigational XPath (also called Core XPath) in terms of first order logic. XPath can be used to specify sets of nodes...
. We give a novel application of algebraic logic to first order logic. A new, flexible construction is presented for representable but not completely representable atomic relation ...
Abstract. Qualification has been recently introduced as a generalization of uncertainty in the field of Logic Programming. In this paper we investigate a more expressive language f...
Partial functions and operators are used extensively in the formal development of programs and thus development methods have to clarify how to reason about them. There are a numbe...
— The Semantic Web can be viewed as largely about “Knowledge meets the Web”. Thus its vision includes ontologies and rules. A key requirement for the architecture of the Sema...
Tassos Venetis, Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos B. Stamou...