Abstract. One of the key factors for effective personalization of information access is the user context. We propose a framework which integrates several critical elements that mak...
Abstract. Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart...
The paper presents an approach for automatically extracting views from a relational database schema, based on the knowledge of the application domain. In order to achieve such resu...
Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
We give a brief description of a system we are currently building that fulfils the promise of our title. This description also indicates why we are interested in the topic of cont...
Richard J. Wallace, Tomas Eric Nordlander, Ioannis...
This note describes a logical system based on concepts and contexts, whose aim is to serve as a representation language for meanings of natural language sentences. The logic is a t...
Valeria de Paiva, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravd...
Abstract. The paper proposes a dialectic approach to exploit discrepancies of viewpoints for learning. The approach is illustrated with an elaborated example. A computational frame...
Current modeling approaches in the field of learning and work resemble the notion of workflows and hence fall short in describing the situated and socially mediated nature of pract...