We address the problem of introducing preferences into default logic. Two approaches are given, one a generalisation of the other. In the first approach, an ordered default theory...
In automated synthesis, we transform a specification into a system that is guaranteed to satisfy the specification against all environments. While modelchecking theory has led to...
Although reasoning about what is the case has been the historic focus of logic, reasoning about what should be done is an equally important capacity for an intelligent agent. Reas...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Sylvie Doutre, Paul E. D...
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...
Abstract. This paper develops a local reasoning method to check lineartime temporal properties of concurrent programs. In practice, it is often infeasible to model check over the p...