This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Recently, the old logical notion of forgetting propositional symbols (or reducing the logical vocabulary) has been generalized to a new notion: forgetting literals. The aim was to...
We show how well-known refinements of ordered resolution, in particular redundancy elimination and ordering constraints in combination with a selection function, can be used to obt...
Answer-set programming (ASP) has emerged recently as a viable programming paradigm well attuned to search problems in AI, constraint satisfaction and combinatorics. Propositional ...
A novel method to solve the state encoding problem in Signal Transition Graphs is presented. It is based on the structural theory of Petri nets and can be applied to large specifi...