With the increasing emphasis on dependability in complex, distributed systems, it is essential that system development can be done gradually and at different levels of detail. In ...
Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, ...
Evidence theory has been widely applied to uncertain reasoning. However, the evidence space and hypothesis space are each defined as a fixed set. If the theory is applied to solve...
Qingxiang Wu, Xi Huang, David A. Bell, Guilin Qi, ...
Abstract. Time dependent behavior has an impact on the performance of telecommunication models. Examples include: staffing a call center, pricing the inventory of private line serv...
Generality or refinement relations between different theories have important applications to generalization in inductive logic programming, refinement of ontologies, and coordin...
The core of scientific theories are laws. These laws often make use of theoretical terms, linguistic entities which do not directly refer to observables. There is therefore no dir...
Rex Bing Hung Kwok, Norman Y. Foo, Abhaya C. Nayak