The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...
The importance of the efforts towards integrating the symbolic and connectionist paradigms of artificial intelligence has been widely recognised. Integration may lead to more e...
The statistical information processing can be characterized by the likelihood function de ned by giving an explicit form for an approximation to the true distribution. This mathema...
Ontologies are conceptual models of particular domains, and domains can be modeled differently, representing different opinions, beliefs or perspectives. In other terms, ontolog...
Reasoning about the past is of fundamental importance in several applications in computer science and artificial intelligence, including reactive systems and planning. In this pa...