Extended abduction introduced by Inoue and Sakama (1995) generalizes traditional abduction in the sense that it can compute negative explanations by removing hypotheses from a non...
Positioning multiple sensors for acquisition of a a given environment is one of the fundamental research areas in various fields, such as military scouting, computer vision and ro...
In this paper we propose a version of default logic with the following two properties: (1) defaults with mutually inconsistent justications are never used together in constructing ...
This paper deals with a model of decision– making in two stages. In the first stage from a set of expertises one chooses the most rational ones, while in the second stage one o...
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...