We describe a new approach to default reasoning, based on a principle of indi erence among possible worlds. We interpret default rules as extreme statistical statements, thus obta...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...
We seek to support the development of open, distributed applications from patible software abstractions. In order to rigorously specify these abstractions, we are elaborating a for...
Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz
This paper presents an argumentative version of the well known alternating offers negotiation protocol. The negotichanism is based on an abstract preference based argumentation fr...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Abstract. Software must be constantly adapted to changing requirehe time scale, abstraction level and granularity of adaptations may vary from short-term, fine-grained adaptation t...