Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Abstract. Tracing computations is a widely used methodology for program debugging. Lazy languages, however, pose new demands on tracing techniques because following the actual trac...
In this paper, we propose a new constructive characterization of those semantics for disjunctive logic programs which are extensions of the well-founded semantics for normal progra...
Computer science has served to insulate programs and programmers from knowledge of the underlying mechanisms used to manipulate information, however this fiction is increasingly h...
Neil Gershenfeld, David Dalrymple, Kailiang Chen, ...
A description-logic based knowledge representation system is more than an inference engine for a particular description logic. A knowledge representation system must provide a num...