The join of two sets of facts, E1 and E2, is defined as the set of all facts that are implied independently by both E1 and E2. Congruence closure is a widely used representation f...
Temporal media is information that is directly consumed by a user, and that varies with time. Examples include music, digital sound files, computer animations, and video clips. I...
The theory of granular partitions (TGP) is a new approach to the understanding of ontologies and other classificatory systems. The paper explores the use of this new theory in the ...
This paper analyzes a language for actions and the deontic modalities over actions -- i.e., the modalities permitted, forbidden and obligatory. The work is based on: (1) an action...
In this paper, it is presented a new way to characterize the phenotype in the context of Genetic Algorithms through the use of Game Theory as a theoretical foundation to define a ...