Abstract. In exploratory learning environments, learners can use different strategies to solve a problem. To the designer or teacher, however, not all these strategies are known in...
We present an ontology of objects, functions, and generic shape representation that supports form-function reasoning. By reasoning from the mechanical and other functions of object...
Inheritance and polymorphism are key mechanisms of the object-oriented approach that enable designers to develop systems in an incremental manner. In this paper, we develop techni...
Abstract. The assume-guarantee paradigm is a powerful divide-andconquer mechanism for decomposing a veri cation task about a system into subtasks about the individual components of...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Marius Minea, Vinayak S. Prab...
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...