Starting from a logic which speci es how to make deductions from a set of sentences (a ` at theory'), a way to generalise this toa partiallyordered bag ofsentences (a `struct...
Research into design rationale in the past has focused on argumentation-based design deliberations. These approaches cannot be used to support change impact analysis effectively ...
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 ...
A new method for classification is proposed. This is based on kernel orthonormalized partial least squares (PLS) dimensionality reduction of the original data space followed by a ...
Abstract. We describe a second-order type theory with proof irrelevance. Within this framework, we give a representation of a form of Mac Lane set theory and discuss automated supp...