Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...
A web page may be relevant to multiple topics; even when nominally on a single topic, the page may attract attention (and thus links) from multiple communities. Instead of indiscr...
We develop a formal theory of mereology that includes relations that change over time. We show how this theory formalizes reasoning over domains of material objects, which include...
Complex graphs, in which multi-type nodes are linked to each other, frequently arise in many important applications, such as Web mining, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and...
Bo Long, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Tian...
This paper presents an approach to acquire knowledge from Wikipedia categories and the category network. Many Wikipedia categories have complex names which reflect human classific...