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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Scalable querying services over fuzzy ontologies
Fuzzy ontologies are envisioned to be useful in the Semantic Web. Existing fuzzy ontology reasoners are not scalable enough to handle the scale of data that the Web provides. In t...
Jeff Z. Pan, Giorgos B. Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, S...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A logic of reasoning, communication and cooperation with syntactic knowledge
We present a general logic of explicit knowledge represented as finite sets of logical formulae which can evolve by nondeterministic reasoning and communication. It is partly bas...
Thomas Ågotnes, Michal Walicki
IFM
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Verifying Controlled Components
Recent work on combining CSP and B has provided ways of describing systems comprised of components described in both B (to express requirements on state) and CSP (to express intera...
Steve Schneider, Helen Treharne
ICML
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Influence of Reward on the Speed of Reinforcement Learning: An Analysis of Shaping
Shaping can be an effective method for improving the learning rate in reinforcement systems. Previously, shaping has been heuristically motivated and implemented. We provide a for...
Adam Laud, Gerald DeJong
ICDCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Complexity of Adding Failsafe Fault-Tolerance
In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of automating the addition of failsafe fault-tolerance where fault-tolerance is added to an existing (fault-intolerant) progra...
Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Ali Ebnenasir