Abstract--We present a refinement-based compositional framework for showing that pipelined machines satisfy the same safety and liveness properties as their non-pipelined specifica...
State of the art reasoners for expressive description logics, such as those that underpin the OWL ontology language, are typically based on highly optimized implementations of (hyp...
In order to capture the full fledge semantic of complicated product data model, the expressive language ALCNHR+ K(D) is introduced. It cannot only be able to represent knowledge a...
Popular XML languages, like XPath, use “treepattern” queries to select nodes based on their structural characteristics. While many processing methods have already been propose...
This paper presents methods of default reasoning which allow us to draw negative conclusions that are not available in some of the models for inheritance reasoning. Some of these ...