This paper presents a method for reasoning about spatial objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly focusses on reasoning abou...
Traditional approaches to distributed problem solving have treated the problem as one of distributed search. In this paper, we propose an alternative, logic-based view of distribut...
Abstract. Set theory is the common language of mathematics. Therefore, set theory plays an important r^ole in many important applications of automated deduction. In this paper, we ...
Epistemic and doxastic modal logics (Hintikka [1962]), and the logics of theory change and belief revision (Alchourr6net. al. [1985], Giirdenfors [1988]) are used for the represen...
Specification-based retrieval provides exact contentoriented access to component libraries but requires too much deductive power. Specification-based browsing evades this bottlene...