For several reasons a database may not satisfy certain integrity constraints (ICs), for example, when it is the result of integrating several independent data sources. However, mo...
Abstract. Quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs) play an important role in artificial intelligence subjects, specially in planning, knowledge representation and reasoning [20]. In th...
Mohammad GhasemZadeh, Volker Klotz, Christoph Mein...
We introduce a general formalism of production inference relations that posses both a standard monotonic semantics and a natural nonmonotonic semantics. The resulting nonmonotonic...
Knowledge representation formalisms used on the Semantic Web adhere to a strict open world assumption. Therefore, nonmonotonic reasoning techniques are often viewed with scepticism...
Negation is intrinsic to human thinking and most of the time when searching for something, we base our patterns on both positive and negative conditions. This should be naturally ...
Horatiu Cirstea, Claude Kirchner, Radu Kopetz, Pie...