In this paper we describe PADUA, a protocol designed to enable agents to debate an issue drawing arguments not from a knowledge base of facts, rules and priorities but directly fro...
Maya Wardeh, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Frans Coene...
So far, Case-Based Reasoning has not become as successful in medicine as in some other application domains. One, probably the main reason is the adaptation problem. In Case-Based R...
For most parallel and high performance systems, tuning guides provide the users with advices to optimize the execution time of their programs. Execution time may be very sensitive...
Abstract Self-healing, i.e. the capability of a system to autonomously detect failures and recover from them, is a very attractive property that may enable large-scale software sys...
Qualitative temporal and spatial reasoning is in many cases based on binary relations such as before, after, starts, contains, contact, part of, and others derived from these by r...