We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
This paper aims to offer an overview of the meaning of autonomy for biological individuals and artificial models rooted in a specific perspective that pays attention to the histor...
We show that the first-order theory of structural subtyping of non-recursive types is decidable. Let be a language consisting of function symbols (representing type constructors)...
: We consider disjunctive sequences, that is, infinite sequences (-words) having all finite words as infixes. It is shown that the set of all disjunctive sequences can be described...