In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
The essence of the signal-to-symbol problem consists of associating a symbolic description of an object (e.g., a chair) to a signal (e.g., an image) that captures the real object....
Manuela M. Veloso, Paul E. Rybski, Felix von Hunde...
Extended abduction introduced by Inoue and Sakama (1995) generalizes traditional abduction in the sense that it can compute negative explanations by removing hypotheses from a non...
The database usability experience has shown that visual query languages tend to be superior to textual languages in many aspects. By applying this principle in the context of ontol...
We present an approach to assist the smart environment design process by means of automated validation of work-in-progress designs. The approach facilitates validation of not only ...