Abstract. The correctness of nested transactions for multidatabases differs from that of at transactions in that, for nested transactions the execution order of siblings at each re...
Ugur Halici, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Asuman Dogac
In this paper, we develop a general theory of fixed point combinators, in higher-order logic equipped with Hilbert’s epsilon operator. This combinator allows for a direct and e...
A central issue in relational learning is the choice of an appropriate bias for limiting first-order induction. The purpose of this study is to circumvent this issue within a unifo...
A general logical framework is presented to represent speech acts that have institutional effects. It is based on the concepts of the Speech Act Theory and takes the form of the FI...
We aim at an adequate formal description of the dynamics of commitments and trust by transferring insights about actual human practices to a formal setting. Our framework is based ...