Abstract. Inconsistent contexts are death-wounds which usually result in contextaware applications' incongruous behaviors and users' perplexed feelings, therefore the ben...
Yingyi Bu, Shaxun Chen, Jun Li, XianPing Tao, Jian...
In today's world there is a need for knowledge infrastructures that can support several autonomous knowledge bases all using different ontologies and constantly adapting thes...
We consider the two-fold problem of representing collective beliefs and aggregating these beliefs. We propose a novel representation for collective beliefs that uses modular, tran...
XML is rapidly becoming one of the most widely adopted technologies for information exchange and representation. As the use of XML becomes more widespread, we foresee the developme...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...