Interactive multi-agent system improves reusability of agents by separating application design from agent design. However, it remains difficult for application designers (usually n...
In response to Searle's well-known Chinese room argument against Strong AI (and more generally, computationalism), Harnad proposed that if the symbols manipulated by a robot ...
This paper adopts the premise that the ‘semantic gap' is an incompletely surveyed feature in the landscape of visual image retrieval, and proposes a framework within which t...
Information is indispensable in preparing economic decisions purposefully. In this paper knowledge is represented by a probability distribution. Knowledge acquisition is realized ...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...