In XML search systems twig queries specify predicates on node values and on the structural relationships between nodes, and a key operation is to join individual query node matche...
This article investigates fundamental issues in scaling autonomous personal robots towards open-ended sets of everyday manipulation tasks which involve high complexity and vague j...
Defeasible reasoning has been studied extensively in the last two decades and many different and dissimilar approaches are currently on the table. This multitude of ideas has made...
Polygon spaces like Mℓ = {(u1, · · · , un) ∈ S1 × · · · S1 ; n i=1 liui = 0}/SO(2) or they three dimensional analogues Nℓ play an important rle in geometry and topolo...
Rule bases are common in many business rule applications, clinical decision support programs, and other types of intelligent systems. As the size of the rule bases grows and the in...