Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
many abstract categories (e.g., ``equivalence'') is innate. Although Plato argued with his contemporaries who advocated the empirical basis of knowledge, it was the Briti...
Incorporating probabilities into the semantics of incomplete databases has posed many challenges, forcing systems to sacrifice modeling power, scalability, or treatment of relatio...
As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...