Soft constraints are a generalization of classical constraints, which allow for the description of preferences rather than strict requirements. In soft constraints, constraints and...
We present a general approach for representing and reasoning with sets of defaults in default logic, focussing on reasoning about preferences among sets of defaults. First, we con...
We consider private information a commodity, of value to both the information holder and the information seeker. Hence, a customer can be enticed to trade his/her private informati...
Scott Buffett, Keping Jia, Sandy Liu, Bruce Spence...
This paper shows how action theories, expressed in an extended version of the language B, can be naturally encoded using Prioritized Default Theory. We also show how prioritized d...
Most of the research inthe area of expert finding focuses on creating and maintaining centralized directories of experts' profiles, which users can search on demand. However, ...