Effect axioms constitute the cornerstone of formal theories of action in AI. They drive standard reasoning tasks, especially prediction. These tasks need not be coupled with actual...
The uptake in the software industry of notations for designing systems visually has been accelerated with the standardization of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The formaliza...
John Howse, Fernando Molina, John Taylor, Sun-Joo ...
Design involves reasoning about descriptions of design artefacts, reasoning about design requirements and reasoning about design process objectives (such as keeping to deadlines an...
Abstract. Abductive reasoning has been recognized as a valuable complement to deductive inference for tasks such as diagnosis and integration of incomplete information despite its ...
Abstract. Conceptual modelling tools allow users to construct formal representations of their conceptualisations. These models are typically developed in isolation, unrelated to ot...