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KBSE
1994
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A Formal Approach to Domain-Oriented Software Design Environments
This paper describes a formal approach to domain-oriented software design environments, based on declarative domain theories, formal specifications, and deductive program synthesi...
Michael R. Lowry, Andrew Philpot, Thomas Pressburg...
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VLDB
1994
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
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AAAI
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Spatial Reasoning in Indeterminate Worlds
A possible worlds semantics for model-based spatial reasoning is presented. In this semantics, worlds are characterized by the alternative states that result from indeterminacy or...
Janice I. Glasgow
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AAAI
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Forming Beliefs about a Changing World
The situation calculus is a popular technique for reasoning about action and change. However, its restriction to a firstorder syntax and pure deductive reasoning makes it unsuitab...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
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ICTL
1994
15 years 2 months ago
Abduction in Temporal Reasoning
Commonsense knowledge often omits the temporal incidence of facts, and even the ordering between occurrences is only available for some of their instances. Reasoning about the temp...
Cristina Ribeiro, António Porto