When mining frequent Datalog queries, many queries will be equivalent in the light of an implicit or explicit background knowledge. To alleviate the problem, we introduce various t...
The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
Modeling complex compositional objects in the field of the life sciences requires to solve intricate ontological problems, especially those related to parts of a whole, space and...
The computational grounding problem – the gap between the mental models of an agent and its computational model – is a well known problem within the agent research community. ...
In this paper, we make a first effort to define requirements for knowledge representation (KR) in an ITS. The requirements concern all stages of an ITS’s life cycle (construction...