• well-founded semantics was defined by Van Gelder, et al. in 1988. The Prolog system XSB implements the well-founded semantics since 1997. The well-founded semantics...
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  • working with a partial order ≤, it is common to apply the definition of well foundedness (perhaps implicitly) to the alternate relation < defined such that...
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  • completion and the well-founded semantics. The stable model semantics is the basis of answer set programming. Research on the declarative semantics of negation...
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  • including Datalog and Prolog. This article describes the syntax and semantics of the purely declarative subset of these languages. Confusingly, the...
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  • The well-founded semantics generalises the notion of inductive definition in mathematical logic. XSB Prolog implements the well-founded semantics using...
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  • algebraic structures for modeling data and defining queries on it with well founded semantics. The theory was introduced by Edgar F. Codd. The main application...
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  • This resulted in a complete implementation of the well-founded semantics, a three-valued semantics that represents values for true, false and unknown...
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  • protocol for serving georeferenced map data over the Internet Well-founded semantics Wells Fargo Securities William French Smith Wilmington Friends School...
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  • well-foundedness. In non-well-founded set theories, the foundation axiom of ZFC is replaced by axioms implying its negation. The study of non-well-founded...
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  • Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings. It includes the study of how words...
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  • Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive semantics holds that language...
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  • default logic. It is based on declarative logic programming with the well-founded semantics. RIF-SILK also includes a number of other features present in more...
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  • Datalog (section Semantics)
    sugar); they have no impact on the semantics of the program. There are three widely-used approaches to the semantics of Datalog programs: model-theoretic...
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    Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends...
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  • In logic, the semantics of logic or formal semantics is the study of the meaning and interpretation of formal languages, formal systems, and (idealizations...
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  • Kripke semantics (also known as relational semantics or frame semantics, and often confused with possible world semantics) is a formal semantics for non-classical...
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  • programming language theory, semantics is the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages. Semantics assigns computational meaning...
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  • languages, and offers a declarative, compact and simple syntax, and the well-defined semantics of a logic programming language. Features include, among others...
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  • include alternative topological semantics such as neighborhood semantics as well as applications of the relational semantics beyond its original philosophical...
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  • Situation theory (category Semantics)
    non-well-founded set theory. One could think of the relation of situation theory to situation semantics as like that of type theory to Montague semantics...
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  • programs. Any of the different semantics of logic programming such as the completion, stable or well-founded semantics can (and have been used in practice)...
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  • operationalization of generative grammar), morphology (e.g., two-level morphology), semantics (e.g., Lesk algorithm), reference (e.g., within Centering Theory) and...
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  • types of deductive systems are proof systems and formal semantics. Formal proofs are sequences of well-formed formulas (or WFF for short) that might either...
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  • Aczel's non-well-founded set theory was proposed by Barwise before this approach to the subject petered out in the early 1990s. Situation semantics is the...
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  • In semantics, mathematical logic and related disciplines, the principle of compositionality is the principle that the meaning of a complex expression...
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  • higher-order logic programming). Tabling enables XSB to implement the well-founded semantics and makes it suitable as a deductive database engine. The open source...
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  • In computer science, denotational semantics (initially known as mathematical semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics) is an approach of formalizing the meanings...
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    Programming languages are described in terms of their syntax (form) and semantics (meaning), usually defined by a formal language. Languages usually provide...
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  • Formal semantics is the scientific study of linguistic meaning through formal tools from logic and mathematics. It is an interdisciplinary field, sometimes...
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  • two different semantics that are commonly used for second-order logic: standard semantics and Henkin semantics. In each of these semantics, the interpretations...
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