Two of the most important threads of work in knowledge representation today are frame-based representation systems (FRS's) and Bayesian networks (BNs). FRS's provide an ...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
In this paper weexplore the computationalaspects of Propositional PowerDefault Reasoning (PDR),a form of non-monotonicreasoning whichthe underlyinglogic is Kleene's3-valued p...
The Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals (IPUS) architecture is a general blackboard framework for structuring bidirectional interaction between front-end signal pro...
This paper describes HERMES,a system that enhances group decision making by providing an argumentation frameworkto the agents involved. Thesystem organizes the existing knowledgei...
1 Robust behavior in complex, dynamic environments mandates that intelligent agents autonomously monitor their own run-time behavior, detect and diagnose failures, and attempt reco...
Hierarchical task network and action-based planning approaches have traditionally been studied separately. In many domains, human expertise in the form of hierarchical reduction s...