A major research goal for compilers and environments is the automatic derivation of tools from formal specifications. However, the formal model of the language is often inadequat...
It is widely recognized that real-time,fault-tolerant and distributed computing technologies play a key role in the deployment of many current andfuture (civilian or Defense) crit...
Abduction is an important form of nonmonotonic reasoning allowing one to find explanations for certain symptoms or manifestations. When the application domain is described by a l...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...