Local reasoning about programs exploits the natural local behaviour common in programs by focussing on the footprint - that part of the resource accessed by the program. We address...
d on Dung’s [4] abstract argumentation system • arguments: trees of chained defeasible inferences • aim: determine the status of a query given a belief base • incorporation...
Objective: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how a formal spatial theory can be used as an important tool for disambiguating the spatial information embodied in biomed...
Abstract. We describe the instance store, a system for reasoning about individuals (i.e., instances of classes) in OWL ontologies. By using a hybrid reasoner/database architecture,...
In object-oriented programming, reentrant method invocations and shared references make it difficult to achieve adequate encapsulation for sound modular reasoning. This tutorial p...