Michael Maher

Honorary Associate Professor

Michael Maher is now Director of the Reasoning Research Institute, Canberra.  He previously taught in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW Canberra.

Before that, he was a Senior Principal Researcher at National ICT Australia and conjoint Professor at UNSW, a Professor at Loyola University Chicago, an Associate Professor at Griffith University, and a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Prospective PhD Students

Michael Maher is not accepting any students for supervision.

Research Experience

  • Computational Logic
  • Constraint Programming and Optimization
  • Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation
  • Non-monotonic Logics
  • Declarative Programming
  • AI and Law

Teaching Experience

  • Algorithms and Complexity
  • Data Structures
  • First-Order Logic
  • Interaction Design
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Operations Research
  • Programming Languages
  • Artificial Intelligence

Memberships

  • Association for Logic Programming
  • Association for Constraint Programming

Consulting Interests

  • Constraint-based Modelling and Optimization
  • Blockchain and smart contracts

PUBLICATIONS
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Preprints
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Maher MJ; Tachmazidis I; Antoniou G; Wade S; Cheng L, 2020, Rethinking Defeasible Reasoning: A Scalable Approach
2020
Book Chapters
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Wang J; Maher M; Topor R, 2002, 'Rewriting Unions of General Conjunctive Queries Using Views', in Advances in Database Technology — EDBT 2002, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 52 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45876-x_6
2002
Antoniou G; Maher MJ, 2002, 'Embedding Defeasible Logic into Logic Programs', in Logic Programming, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 393 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45619-8_27
2002
Maher MJ, 2002, 'Propagation Completeness of Reactive Constraints', in Logic Programming, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 148 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45619-8_11
2002
Beaumont M; Sattar A; Maher M; Thornton J, 2001, 'Solving Overconstrained Temporal Reasoning Problems', in AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 37 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45656-2_4
2001
Wang J; Topor R; Maher M, 2001, 'Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 963 - 973, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44759-8_93
2001
Governatori G; Maher MJ; Antoniou G; Billington D, 2000, 'Argumentation Semantics for Defeasible Logics', in PRICAI 2000 Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 27 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44533-1_7
2000
Maher MJ, 2000, 'A Denotational Semantics of Defeasible Logic', in Computational Logic — CL 2000, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 209 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44957-4_14
2000
Maher M; Wang J, 2000, 'Optimizing Queries in Extended Relational Databases', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 386 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44469-6_36
2000
Maher MJ, 1999, 'Adding Constraints to Logic-based Formalisms', in The Logic Programming Paradigm, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 313 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60085-2_13
1999
Antoniou G; Maher MJ; Billington B; Governatori G, 1999, 'A Comparison of Sceptical NAF-Free Logic Programming Approaches', in Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 347 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46767-x_25
1999
Billington D; Antoniou G; Governatori G; Maher M, 1999, 'Revising Nonmonotonic Theories: The Case of Defeasible Logic', in KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 101 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48238-5_8
1999
Maher MJ; Antoniou G; Billington D, 1998, 'A study of provability in defeasible logic', in Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 215 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0095054
1998
Jaffar J; Maher MJ, 1998, 'Constraint Logic Programming: A Survey', in Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming: Volume 5: Logic Programming, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198537922.003.0012
1998
Brodsky A; Jaffar J; Maher MJ, 1997, 'Toward Practical Query Evaluation for Constraint Databases', in Constraints and Databases, Springer US, pp. 41 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5515-5_3
1997
Maher MJ, 1995, 'Constrained dependencies', in Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP '95, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 170 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60299-2_11
1995
Jaffar J; Maher MJ; Stuckey PJ; Yap RHC, 1994, 'Beyond finite domains', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 86 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58601-6_92
1994
Lassez J-L; Maher M; Marriott K, 1991, 'Elimination of negation in term algebras', in Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1991, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54345-7_44
1991
Maher MJ, 1989, 'A transformation system for deductive database modules with perfect model semantics', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 89 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52048-1_35
1989
Lassez J-L; Maher MJ; Marriott K, 1988, 'Unification revisited', in Foundations of Logic and Functional Programming, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 67 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19129-1_4
1988
Lassez J-L; Maher MJ; Marriott K, 1988, 'Unification Revisited', in Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming, Elsevier, pp. 587 - 625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-934613-40-8.50019-1
1988
Maher MJ, 1988, 'Equivalences of Logic Programs', in Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming, Elsevier, pp. 627 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-934613-40-8.50020-8
1988
Jaffar J; Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1986, 'Some issues and trends in the semantics of logic programming', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 223 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16492-8_78
1986
Barbuti R; Codish M; Giacobazzi R; Maher M, 'Oracle semantics for Prologa', in Algebraic and Logic Programming, Springer-Verlag, pp. 100 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0013822
Maher MJ, 'A CLP view of logic programming', in Algebraic and Logic Programming, Springer-Verlag, pp. 364 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0013838
Conference Papers
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Van Der Meyden R; Maher MJ, 2021, 'Architecture for Smart SAFE Contracts', in 2021 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research and Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, BRAINS 2021, pp. 145 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569831
2021
Tajvidi M; Essam D; Maher MJ, 2018, 'Deadline-constrained stochastic optimization of resource provisioning, for cloud users', in Muñoz VM; Ferguson D; Helfert M; Pahl C (eds.), CLOSER 2018 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, SciTePress, Science and Technology Publications, Lda, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 179 - 189, presented at 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science :CLOSER 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 19 March 2018 - 21 March 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006761401790189
2018
Tajvidi M; Maher MJ; Essam D, 2017, 'Uncertainty-Aware optimization of resource provisioning, a cloud end-user perspective', in CLOSER 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, pp. 293 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006234103210328
2017
Maher MJ, 2016, 'Resistance to corruption of strategic argumentation', in PRIMA 2016: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, Phoenix, USA, pp. 61 - 75, presented at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phoenix, USA, 12 February 2016 - 17 February 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44832-9_4
2016
Maher MJ, 2016, 'Resistance to Corruption of General Strategic Argumentation', in 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016, Thailand, pp. 1030 - 1036, presented at International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, Thailand, 22 August 2016 - 26 August 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44832-9_4
2016
Maher MJ, 2016, 'Corrupt strategic argumentation: The ideal and the naive', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Hobart, TAS, Australia, pp. 17 - 28, presented at 2016 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 05 December 2016 - 08 December 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50127-7_2
2016
Maher MJ, 2015, 'Relating Concrete Argumentation Formalisms and Abstract Argumentation', in Eiter T; Toni F (ed.), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Cork, Ireland, presented at International Conference on Logic Programming, Cork, Ireland, 31 August 2015 - 04 September 2015
2015
Maher MJ, 2014, 'Comparing Defeasible Logics', in ECAI 2014, IOS Press, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 585 - 590, presented at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Prague, Czech Republic, 18 August 2014 - 22 August 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-585
2014
Maher MJ, 2014, 'Complexity of Exploiting Privacy Violations in Strategic Argumentation', in Pham D-N; Park S-B (ed.), PRICAI 2014: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp. 523 - 535, presented at Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 01 December 2014 - 05 December 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13560-1_42
2014
Governatori G; Maher MJ; Olivieri F; Rotolo A; Scannapieco S, 2014, 'Strategic Argumentation Under Grounded Semantics is NP-Complete', in Multi-Agent Systems, Springer, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 379 - 387, presented at European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 18 December 2014 - 19 December 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17130-2_26
2014
Maher MJ, 2013, 'Relative Expressiveness of Well-Founded Defeasible Logics', in Cranefield S; Nayak A (ed.), AI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 26th Australasian Joint Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 338 - 349, presented at 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Dunedin, New Zealand, 03 December 2013 - 06 December 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03680-9_35
2013
Mehani O; Boreli R; Maher M; Ernst T, 2011, 'User- and Application-Centric Multihomed Flow Management', in Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States, pp. 26 - 34, presented at 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2011, Bonn, Germany, 04 October 2011 - 07 October 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115206
2011
Newton MAH; Pham N; Sattar A; Maher M, 2011, 'Kangaroo: An Efficient Constraint-Based Local Search System Using Lazy Propagation', in Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2011, Springer, Perugia, Italy, pp. 645 - 659, presented at 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2011, Perugia, Italy, 12 September 2011 - 16 September 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23786-7_49
2011
Maher M, 2010, 'Contractibility and Contractible Approximations of Soft Global Constraints', in Technical Communications of the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, pp. 114 - 123, presented at International Conference on Logic Programming 2010, Edinburgh, UK, 16 July 2010 - 19 July 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.114
2010
Maher M, 2009, 'Open Constraints in a Boundable World', in Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization, Springer, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, pp. 163 - 177, presented at 6th International Conference CPAIOR 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 27 May 2009 - 31 May 2009
2009
Maher M, 2009, 'Open Contractible Global Constraints', in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arti cial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 578 - 583, presented at 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial inteliigence, Pasadena USA, 11 July 2009 - 17 July 2009
2009
Maher M, 2009, 'SOGgy Constraints: Soft Open Global Constraints', in Principles and Practice of Constraints Programming - CP 2009, Springer, Berlin, pp. 584 - 591, presented at 15th International Conference CP 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 September 2009 - 24 September 2009
2009
Maher M; Huang G, 2008, 'On Computing Constraint Abduction Answers', in Logic Programming, 21st International Conference, Springer, Berlin, pp. 421 - 435, presented at 2010 International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 22 November 2008 - 27 November 2008
2008
Maher M, 2008, 'Human and Unhuman Commonsense Reasoning', in Fermüller CG; Voronkov A (ed.), Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 17th International Conference, Springer, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, pp. 16 - 29, presented at 2010 International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 22 November 2008 - 27 November 2008
2008
Maher M; Narodytska N; Quimper C; Walsh T, 2008, 'Flow-based propagators for the sequence and related global constraints', in 14th International conference on Principles and practice of constraint programming, Sydney, pp. 159 - 174, presented at 14th International conference on Principles and practice of constraint programming, Sydney, 14 September 2008 - 18 September 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85958-1_11
2008
Maher M, 2006, 'Heyting domains for constraint abduction', in AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, presented at 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, 04 December 2006 - 08 December 2006
2006
Maher M, 2005, 'Herbrand Constraint Abduction', in Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, IEEE Computer Society, Chicago, USA, pp. 397 - 406, presented at 20th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Chicago, USA, 26 June 2005 - 29 June 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LICS.2005.21
2005
Stuckey PJ; De La Banda MG; Maher M; Marriott K; Slaney J; Somogyi Z; Wallace M; Walsh T, 2005, 'The G12 project: Mapping solver independent models to efficient solutions', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 9 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11562931_3
2005
Stuckey P; de la Banda M; Maher M; marriott K; Slaney J; Somogyi Z; Wallace MA; Walsh T, 2005, 'The G12 project: Mapping solver independent models to efficient solutions', in 11th International conference on principles and practice of constraint programming, Sitges, Spain, pp. 13 - 16, presented at 11th International conference on principles and practice of constraint programming, Sitges, Spain, 01 October 2005 - 05 October 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11564751_4
2005
Maher M, 2005, 'Abduction of Linear Arithmetic Constraints', in Logic Programming, 21st International Conference, Springer, Berlin, pp. 174 - 188, presented at 2005 International Conference on Logic Programming, Sitges, Spain, 02 October 2005
2005
Beaumont M; Thornton J; Sattar A; Maher M, 2004, 'Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search', in PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, presented at 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, 09 August 2004 - 13 August 2004
2004
Maher MJ; Srivastava D, 1996, 'Chasing constrained tuple-generating dependencies', in Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems - PODS '96, ACM Press, presented at the fifteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium, 04 June 1996 - 06 June 1996, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/237661.237693
1996
Brodsky A; Lassez C; Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1995, 'Separability of polyhedra for optimal filtering of spatial and constraint data', in Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems - PODS '95, ACM Press, presented at the fourteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium, 22 May 1995 - 25 May 1995, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/212433.212449
1995
Jaffar J; Maher MJ; Neumann G, 'An architecture and prototype implementation of a system for individualised workflows in medical information systems', in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers, IEEE Comput. Soc, presented at HICSS 32 - 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.1999.772963
Thornton J; Beaumont M; Sattar A; Maher M, 'Applying local search to temporal reasoning', in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, IEEE Comput. Soc, presented at Ninth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/time.2002.1027481
Antoniou G; Billington D; Maher MJ, 'On the analysis of regulations using defeasible rules', in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers, IEEE Comput. Soc, presented at HICSS 32 - 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.1999.772631
Maher MJ; Rock A; Antoniou G; Billington D; Miller T, 'Efficient defeasible reasoning systems', in Proceedings 12th IEEE Internationals Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. ICTAI 2000, IEEE Comput. Soc, presented at Twelfth Internationals Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. ICTAI 2000, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tai.2000.889898
Conference Proceedings (Editor of)
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Bossi A; Maher M, (ed.), 2006, 'Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming', Venice, Italy, presented at International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Venice, Italy, 10 July 2006 - 12 July 2006
2006
Maher M, (ed.), 2004, 'ASIAN 2004, Higher-Level Decision Making, 9th Asian Computing Science Conference, Dedicated to Jean-Louis Lassez on the Occasion of His 5th Cycle Birthday', Springer, Chang Mai, Thailand, presented at 9th Asian Computing Science Conference, Chang Mai, Thailand, 08 December 2004 - 10 December 2004
2004
Journal articles
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Maher MJ, 2021, 'Defeasible Reasoning via Datalog$^\neg$', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10946v1
2021
Governatori G; Maher MJ; Olivieri F, 2021, 'Strategic argumentation', Journal of Applied Logics, vol. 8, pp. 1679 - 1748
2021
Maher MJ, 2021, 'Approximating Defeasible Logics to Improve Scalability', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05232v1
2021
Maher MJ, 2021, 'Defeasible Reasoning via DatalogA', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068421000387
2021
Maher MJ, 2021, 'On Signings and the Well-Founded Semantics', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068421000077
2021
Maher MJ; Tachmazidis ILIAS; Antoniou G; Wade S; Cheng LONG, 2020, 'Rethinking Defeasible Reasoning: A Scalable Approach', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068420000010
2020
Maher MJ, 2020, 'A lemma on closures and its application to modularity in logic programming semantics', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00724v1
2020
Maher MJ, 2020, 'Corruption and Audit in Strategic Argumentation', , http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13115v1
2020
Maher MJ, 2017, 'Relating concrete defeasible reasoning formalisms and abstract argumentation', Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 155, pp. 233 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2017-1584
2017
Maher MJ, 2017, 'Contractibility for open global constraints', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 17, pp. 365 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068417000126
2017
Governatori G; Maher MJ, 2017, 'Annotated defeasible logic', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 17, pp. 819 - 836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068417000266
2017
Ahmed M; Mahmood AN; Maher MJ, 2015, 'An Efficient Technique For Network Traffic Summarization Using Multiview Clustering And Statistical Sampling', EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/sis.2.5.e4
2015
Ahmed M; Anwar A; MAHMOOD A; Shah Z; Maher MJ, 2015, 'An Investigation of Performance Analysis of Anomaly Detection Techniques for Big Data in SCADA Systems', ICST Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/inis.2.3.e5
2015
Maher MJ, 2013, 'Relative Expressiveness of Defeasible Logics II', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 13, pp. 579 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068413000367
2013
Maher M, 2012, 'Relative Expressiveness of Defeasible Logics', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 12, pp. 793 - 810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068412000294
2012
Billington D; Antoniou G; Governatori G; Maher M, 2010, 'An inclusion theorem for defeasible logics', ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, vol. 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1838552.1838558
2010
Maher M, 2009, 'Local consistency for extended CSPs', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 410, pp. 4769 - 4783
2009
Falaschi M; Maher M, 2007, 'Introduction Special Issue on Multiparadigm Languages and Constraint Programming', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 7, pp. 1 - 2
2007
Maher M; Antoniou G; Billington D; Governatori G, 2006, 'Embedding defeasible logic in logic programming', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 6, pp. 703 - 735, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1471068406002778
2006
Antoniou G; Billington D; Governatori G; Maher MJ, 2005, 'Embedding Defeasible Logic into Logic Programming', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 6, pp. 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S147106840600277
2005
Wang J; Topor RW; Maher M, 2005, 'Rewriting Union Queries Using Views', Constraints, vol. 10, pp. 219 - 251
2005
Maher MJ, 2004, 'Propositional Defeasible Logic has Linear Complexity', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 1, pp. 6, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0405090v1
2004
Governatori G; Maher MJ; Antoniou G; Billington D, 2004, 'Argumentation semantics for defeasible logic', Journal of Logic and Computation, vol. 14, pp. 675 - 702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/logcom/14.5.675
2004
Maher MJ, 2002, 'A Model-Theoretic Semantics for Defeasible Logic', , http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207086v1
2002
Jaffar J; Maher MJ, 2002, '', Constraints, vol. 7, pp. 227 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1020564731987
2002
Antoniou G; Billington D; Governatori G; Maher MJ, 2001, 'Representation results for defeasible logic', ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, vol. 2, pp. 255 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/371316.371517
2001
MAHER MJ; ROCK A; ANTONIOU G; BILLINGTON D; MILLER T, 2001, 'EFFICIENT DEFEASIBLE REASONING SYSTEMS', International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 10, pp. 483 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218213001000623
2001
MAHER MJ, 2001, 'Propositional defeasible logic has linear complexity', Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, vol. 1, pp. 691 - 711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1471068401001168
2001
Antoniou G; Billigton D; Governatori G; Maher MJ, 2000, 'A flexible framework for defeasible logics', , http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0003013v1
2000
Antoniou G; Maher MJ; Billington D, 2000, 'Defeasible logic versus Logic Programming without Negation as Failure', The Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 42, pp. 47 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0743-1066(99)00060-6
2000
Brodsky A; Lassez C; Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1999, '', Journal of Automated Reasoning, vol. 23, pp. 83 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1006171919920
1999
Jaffar J; Maher M; Marriott K; Stuckey P, 1998, 'The semantics of constraint logic programs1Note that reviewing of this paper was handled by the Editor-in-Chief.1', The Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 37, pp. 1 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0743-1066(98)10002-x
1998
Maher MJ, 1997, 'Constrained dependencies', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 173, pp. 113 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3975(96)00193-4
1997
Brodsky A; Jaffar J; Maher MJ, 1997, '', Constraints, vol. 2, pp. 279 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1009795512753
1997
Maher MJ; Stuckey PJ, 1995, 'On inductive inference of cyclic structures', Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 15, pp. 167 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01534454
1995
Barbuti R; Codish M; Giacobazzi R; Maher MJ, 1995, 'Oracle Semantics for Prolog', Information and Computation, vol. 122, pp. 178 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/inco.1995.1146
1995
Jaffar J; Maher MJ, 1994, 'Constraint logic programming: a survey', The Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 19-20, pp. 503 - 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0743-1066(94)90033-7
1994
Jaffar J; Maher MJ; Stuckey PJ; Yap RHC, 1993, 'Projecting CLPR constraints', New Generation Computing, vol. 11, pp. 449 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03037187
1993
Maher MJ, 1993, 'A transformation system for deductive database modules with perfect model semantics', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 110, pp. 377 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(93)90013-j
1993
Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1992, 'On Fourier's algorithm for linear arithmetic constraints', Journal of Automated Reasoning, vol. 9, pp. 373 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00245296
1992
Jaffar J; Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1986, 'Comments on “general failure of logic programs”', The Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 3, pp. 115 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0743-1066(86)90018-x
1986
Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1985, 'Optimal fixedpoints of logic programs', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 39, pp. 15 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(85)90128-8
1985
Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1984, 'Closures and fairness in the semantics of programming logic', Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 29, pp. 167 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(84)90017-3
1984
Jaffar J; Lassez J-L; Maher MJ, 1984, 'A theory of complete logic programs with equality', The Journal of Logic Programming, vol. 1, pp. 211 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0743-1066(84)90010-4
1984

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Argumentation, Computational Logic, Constraint Programming, Defeasible Reasoning, Non-monotonic Logics, Declarative Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Organisational units
lensSchool of Engineering & Information Technology