Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
Levesque introduced the notion of only-knowing to precisely capture the beliefs of a knowledge base. He also showed how only-knowing can be used to formalize non-monotonic behavio...
One of the previous articles in this column was devoted to the zero-one laws for a number of logics playing prominent role in finite model theory: first-order logic FO, the extens...
Building complex software systems necessitates the use of component-based architectures. In theory, of the set of components needed for a design, only some small portion of them ar...
In this paper we describe Astra, a computational aid for generating process explanations in nuclear astrophysics. The system operates in two stages, the rst using knowledge of qua...