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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Automated Reasoning"”.
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Automated reasoning about classical mechanics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Logical representations for automated reasoning about spatial relationships
… logical representations for describing and reasoning about spatial situations. Previously proposed theories of spatial regions are investigated in some detail - especially the 1st-order theory of Randell, Cui and Cohn (1992). The difficulty of achieving effective automated reasoning with …
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Formal verification of cryptographic protocols with automated reasoning
Cryptographic protocols form the backbone of our digital society. Unfortunately, the security of numerous critical components has been neglected. As a consequence, attacks have resulted in financial loss, violations of personal privacy, and threats to democracy. This thesis aids the secure design …
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Towards eliminating expert creative help in automated reasoning
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Automated reasoning for fixpoints and concrete execution in matching logic
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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A Classification Approach for Automated Reasoning Systems--A Case Study in Graph Theory
<p>Reasoning systems which create classifications of structured objects face the problem of how object descriptions can be used to reflect their components as well as relations among these components. Current reasoning systems on graph theory do not adequately provide models to discover complex …
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Exploiting SAT and SMT Techniques for Automated Reasoning and Ontology Manipulation in Description Logics
… of whose main characteristic is the emphasis on reasoning. Since the last two decades Description logics have been widely studied and applied to numerous areas of computer science (including artificial intelligence, formal verification, database theory, natural language processing and distributed …
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Automated Reasoning via a Multi-sorted Fragment of Computable Set Theory with Applications to Semantic Web
… extend the power of knowledge representation and reasoning systems is the main task of my research work started by observing the lack of some desirable characteristics concerning the expressiveness of semantic web languages and their integration with some features of rule-based languages, arisen …
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Anti-Unification in Constraint Logics: Foundations and Applications to Learnability in First-Order Logic, to Speed-Up Learning, and to Deduction
Unification is central to automated reasoning. Unification comes in a variety of forms, all of which compute (roughly stated) the greatest lower bound, or all maximal lower bounds, of any two or more syntactic objects in a partially-ordered set of such objects. The dual of unification is an …
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Efficient Reasoning with Constrained Goal Models
… problems. In this work, we exploit advances in automated reasoning technologies, notably Satisfiability and Optimization Modulo Theories (SMT/OMT), and we propose and formalize: (i) an extended modelling language for goals, namely the Constrained Goal Model (CGM), which makes explicit the notion …
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Knowledge integration in machine reading
… building a knowledge base that supports automated reasoning and question answering. Success at this task could fundamentally solve the knowledge acquisition bottleneck – the widely recognized problem that knowledge-based AI systems are difficult and expensive to build because of the …
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Reasoning on the response of logical signaling networks with answer set programming
… of logical signaling networks by means of automated reasoning using Answer Set Programming (ASP). ASP provides a declarative language for modeling various knowledge representation and reasoning problems. Moreover, available ASP solvers provide several reasoning modes for assessing the …
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Verification of full functional correctness for imperative linked data structures
… us to effectively leverage Jahob's integrated reasoning system. Unlike conventional program verification systems that rely on a single monolithic prover, Jahob includes interfaces to a diverse collection of specialized automated reasoning systems-automated theorem provers, decision procedures, …
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Polynomial-Time Reasoning Support for Design and Maintenance of Large-Scale Biomedical Ontologies
… to represent knowledge in an unambiguous way and automated reasoning which allows to infer implicit knowledge from the one given explicitly. This thesis investigates various reasoning techniques for tractable DLs in the EL family which have been implemented in the CEL system. It suggests that the …
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STS: a Security Requirements Engineering methodology for socio-technical Systems
… of STS-ml have a formal semantics which enables automated reasoning for detecting possible conflicts among security requirements as well as conflicts between security requirements and actors’ business policies — how they intend to achieve their objectives. Importantly, automated reasoning …
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Automated code compliance checking in the construction domain using semantic natural language processing and logic-based reasoning
… and/or government organizations to develop automated compliance checking (ACC) systems. However, two main gaps in the existing ACC efforts are: (1) manual effort is needed for extracting requirements from regulatory documents and encoding these requirements in a computer-processable rule …
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Drug repositioning and indication discovery using description logics
… at predicting repositioning opportunities in an automated fashion. Some approaches rely on the direct physical interaction between molecules and protein targets (docking) and some methods consider more abstract descriptors, such as a gene expression signature, in order to characterise the …
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Toward language-independent program verification
… also describes the natural proof methodology for automated reasoning about heap properties.
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Automated analysis of security APIs
… of modeling these APIs formally and using an automated-reasoning tool to discover attacks. In particular, we discuss the techniques we used to model the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 API and how we used OTTER, a theorem-prover, and ALLOY, a model-finder, to find both API- chaining attacks …
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Symbolic reachability analysis for rewrite theories
… step forward in automatic and semi-automatic reasoning for reachability properties of rewriting logic specifications, a major research goal in the current state of the art. In particular, this work develops deductive techniques for reasoning symbolically about specifications with initial model …
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