Abstract. Applications in software verification often require determining the satisfiability of first-order formulæ with respect to some background theories. During development...
The inherent vagueness and ambiguity of non-monotonic reasoning makes it impossible to formulate detailed specifications to validate KBS performance by using traditional test-case...
We present a general approach for representing and reasoning with sets of defaults in default logic, focussing on reasoning about preferences among sets of defaults. First, we con...
In automated synthesis, we transform a specification into a system that is guaranteed to satisfy the specification. In spite of the rich theory developed for system synthesis, litt...
This article presents a general framework for integrating reasoning about object structure and concept taxonomies. The structural relations in the domain of objects discussed are ...