Thispaper describesAPE(the Atlas PlanningEngine),the reactive planner at the center of the Atlas dialogue managementsystem. The goal of Atlas is to build conversation-basedsystems...
Extracting knowledge from existing sources of information is a key development area to unlock previously unknown relationships between specific data points. Data mining is a techn...
In a unified knowledge representation data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as "items". Objects are item building operators. Items an...
The existence of large datasets requires methods for producing simpler or summarized views of data. Typical approaches to summarization based on statistics do not capture complete...
In recent years, fuzzy logic has been applied successfully to a wide range of problems. This paper shows how it can be utilized in the area of spatial reasoning, in particular geo...