Abstract. A great deal of research has been devoted to nontrivial reasoning in inconsistent knowledge bases. Coherence-based approaches proceed by a consolidation operation which s...
Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
Scenarios are narratives that illustrate future possibilities, such as proposed systems or plans, and help policy makers and designers choose among alternative courses of action. ...
For many KDD applications, such as detecting criminal activities in E-commerce, finding the rare instances or the outliers, can be more interesting than finding the common pattern...
Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. ...
In an agent-based system, where different agents form dynamic associations for the purposes of collaborative processing, agents must be able to locate other agents that can provi...
Anthony R. Cassandra, Damith Chandrasekara, Marian...