Expert systems (ESs) are complex information systems that are expensive to build and difficult to validate. Numerous knowledge representation strategies such as rules, semantic net...
PAGODA (Policy And GOal Based Distributed Autonomy) is a modular architecture for specifying and prototyping autonomous systems. A PAGODA node (agent) interacts with its environme...
Low-overhead checkpointing and rollback is a popular technique for fault recovery. While different approaches are possible, hardware-supported checkpointing and rollback at the ca...
: This paper presents the ANS architecture that uses ubiquitous computing to monitor medical patients in the home. Since there is no notion of the patient carrying out maintenance ...
Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann, Asher Hoskin...
In this paper we provide a foundation of a theory of contextual reasoning from the perspective of a theory of knowledge representation. Starting from the so-called metaphor of the...
Massimo Benerecetti, Paolo Bouquet, Chiara Ghidini