Abstract. In this work, we propose two approaches of hiding predictive association rules where the data sets are horizontally distributed and owned by collaborative but non-trustin...
1 Testing is a popular way to assess one's competence in a language. The assessment can be conducted by the students for self evaluation or by the teachers in achievement test...
In conflict-free routing a set of agents have to traverse a common infrastructure without interfering with each other. Maza and Castagna [1] showed how route plans can be repaired ...
Knowledge engineering techniques are becoming useful and popular components of hybrid integrated systems used to solve complicated practical problems in different fields. Knowledge...
Radiation is often used in prostate cancer treatments. Radiotherapy treatment planning is a complex decision making process. In order to make a patient well, the oncologist has to...
We propose a framework which we call stochastic offline programming (SOP). The idea is to embed the development of combinatorial algorithms in an off-line learning environment whi...
The paper discusses a new approach to merging conflicting propositional knowledge bases which builds on the idea that consistency can often be restored by interpreting proposition...
We propose a new method for solving structured CSPs which generalizes and improves the Cyclic-Clustering approach [4]. First, the cutset and the tree-decomposition of the constrai...