Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
Defeasible logic is a simple but efficient rule-based non-monotonic logic. It has powerful implementations and shows promise to be applied in the areas of legal reasoning and the m...
Guido Governatori, Michael J. Maher, Grigoris Anto...
: A unified controlled medical vocabulary has been cited as one of the grand challenges facing Medical Informatics. We would restate this challenge as ‘achieving a re-usable and ...
We present a method for finding optimal partial solutions to overconstrained instances of the Disjunctive Temporal Problems (DTP). The solutions are optimal in that they satisfy ...
One of the major components of any evolutionary system is the evaluation function. Evaluation functions are used to assign a quality measure for individuals in a population. Where...