A fundamental facility location problem is to choose the location of facilities, such as industrial plants and warehouses, to minimize the cost of satisfying the demand for some c...
We address the problem of introducing preferences into default logic. Two approaches are given, one a generalisation of the other. In the first approach, an ordered default theory...
The evolution tree model is a two-dimensional model that describes how the versions of the artifacts of a software product evolve. The propagation graph is a data structure that c...
This paper re-examines the problem of parameter estimation in Bayesian networks with missing values and hidden variables from the perspective of recent work in on-line learning [1...
Model abstraction using metamodeling has demonstrated the capability to facilitate software reuse, large scale model integration, verification, and validation. Once restricted to...