Abstract. The upper-level ontologies are theories that capture the most common concepts, which are relevant for many of the tasks involving knowledge extraction, representation, an...
Abduction is an important form of nonmonotonic reasoning allowing one to find explanations for certain symptoms or manifestations. When the application domain is described by a l...
Purpose – This paper sets out to present the concept of the value of information, review the descriptive, rational, social and behavioral approaches for assessing the value of i...
We consider the problem of identifying a team of skilled individuals for collaboration, in the presence of a social network. Each node in the input social network may be an expert...
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...