Abstract. We examine the possibility of applying knowledge representation and automated reasoning in the context of philosophical ontology. For this purpose, we use the axioms and ...
Abstract eCommerce of the Business-to-Business (B2B) type requires comprehensivecontractnegotiationsdependingentirelyonacontract schema, which must be developed in advance. Contrac...
Closed world reasoning is a common nonmonotonic technique that allows for dealing with negative information in knowledge and data bases. We present a detailed analysis of the comp...
We consider the containment problem for conjunctive queries with atomic negation. Firstly, we refine an existing algorithm based on homomorphism checks, which itself improves other...
Objective Bayesian probability is often defined over rather simple domains, e.g., finite event spaces or propositional languages. This paper investigates the extension of objectiv...