One of the major advances in classical planning has been the development of Graphplan. Graphplan builds a layered structure called the planning graph, and then searches this struc...
In this paper, a new method for merging multiple inconsistent knowledge bases in the framework of possibilistic logic is presented. We divide the fusion process into two steps: on...
Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature mak...