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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...