Given a set of numbers, and a set of bins of fixed capacity, the NP-complete problem of bin packing is to find the minimum number of bins needed to contain the numbers, such that ...
Degrees of information and of contradiction are investigated within a uniform propositional framework, based on test actions. We consider that the degree of information of a propo...
NoA is an agent architecture that supports the development of agents motivated by norms: obligations, permissions and prohibitions. Obligations motivate a normative agent to act: ...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to h...
There are two types of collaborative filtering (CF) systems, user-based and item-based. This paper introduces an item-based CF system for ranking derived from Linear Associative ...
Huge amounts of data are stored in autonomous, geographically distributed sources. The discovery of previously unknown, implicit and valuable knowledge is a key aspect of the expl...