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Human decisional processes result from the employment of selected quantities of relevant information, generally synthesized from environmental incoming data and stored memories. Their main goal is the production of an appropriate and adaptive response to a cognitive or behavioral task. Different strategies of response ... | Decisional Processes with Boolean Neural Network: the Emergence of
Mental Schemes | 600 |
Internet and expert systems have offered new ways of sharing and distributing knowledge, but there is a lack of researches in the area of web based expert systems. This paper introduces a development of a web-based expert system for the regulations of civil service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia named as RCSES. It is t... | Web-Based Expert System for Civil Service Regulations: RCSES | 601 |
Many engineering optimization problems can be considered as linear programming problems where all or some of the parameters involved are linguistic in nature. These can only be quantified using fuzzy sets. The aim of this paper is to solve a fuzzy linear programming problem in which the parameters involved are fuzzy qu... | Application of a Fuzzy Programming Technique to Production Planning in
the Textile Industry | 602 |
Mamdani Fuzzy Model is an important technique in Computational Intelligence (CI) study. This paper presents an implementation of a supervised learning method based on membership function training in the context of Mamdani fuzzy models. Specifically, auto zoom function of a digital camera is modelled using Mamdani techn... | The Application of Mamdani Fuzzy Model for Auto Zoom Function of a
Digital Camera | 603 |
In this book we introduce a new procedure called \alpha-Discounting Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (\alpha-D MCDM), which is as an alternative and extension of Saaty Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). It works for any number of preferences that can be transformed into a system of homogeneous linear equation... | $α$-Discounting Multi-Criteria Decision Making ($α$-D MCDM) | 604 |
This paper proposes a design for a system to generate constraint solvers that are specialised for specific problem models. It describes the design in detail and gives preliminary experimental results showing the feasibility and effectiveness of the approach. | Dominion -- A constraint solver generator | 605 |
Machine Consciousness is the study of consciousness in a biological, philosophical, mathematical and physical perspective and designing a model that can fit into a programmable system architecture. Prime objective of the study is to make the system architecture behave consciously like a biological model does. Present w... | Logical Evaluation of Consciousness: For Incorporating Consciousness
into Machine Architecture | 606 |
To study the communication between information systems, Wang et al. [C. Wang, C. Wu, D. Chen, Q. Hu, and C. Wu, Communicating between information systems, Information Sciences 178 (2008) 3228-3239] proposed two concepts of type-1 and type-2 consistent functions. Some properties of such functions and induced relation ma... | Some improved results on communication between information systems | 607 |
Recently, Wang et al. discussed the properties of fuzzy information systems under homomorphisms in the paper [C. Wang, D. Chen, L. Zhu, Homomorphisms between fuzzy information systems, Applied Mathematics Letters 22 (2009) 1045-1050], where homomorphisms are based upon the concepts of consistent functions and fuzzy rel... | Homomorphisms between fuzzy information systems revisited | 608 |
In this paper, research on AI based modeling technique to optimize development of new alloys with necessitated improvements in properties and chemical mixture over existing alloys as per functional requirements of product is done. The current research work novels AI in lieu of predictions to establish association betwe... | Establishment of Relationships between Material Design and Product
Design Domains by Hybrid FEM-ANN Technique | 609 |
Currently, criminals profile (CP) is obtained from investigators or forensic psychologists interpretation, linking crime scene characteristics and an offenders behavior to his or her characteristics and psychological profile. This paper seeks an efficient and systematic discovery of nonobvious and valuable patterns bet... | Modeling of Human Criminal Behavior using Probabilistic Networks | 610 |
Constraint programming can definitely be seen as a model-driven paradigm. The users write programs for modeling problems. These programs are mapped to executable models to calculate the solutions. This paper focuses on efficient model management (definition and transformation). From this point of view, we propose to re... | Model-Driven Constraint Programming | 611 |
An important challenge in constraint programming is to rewrite constraint models into executable programs calculat- ing the solutions. This phase of constraint processing may require translations between constraint programming lan- guages, transformations of constraint representations, model optimizations, and tuning o... | Rewriting Constraint Models with Metamodels | 612 |
Transforming constraint models is an important task in re- cent constraint programming systems. User-understandable models are defined during the modeling phase but rewriting or tuning them is manda- tory to get solving-efficient models. We propose a new architecture al- lowing to define bridges between any (modeling o... | Using ATL to define advanced and flexible constraint model
transformations | 613 |
The methodology of Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) is applied for assessment of newborn brain maturity from sleep EEG. In theory this methodology provides the most accurate assessments of uncertainty in decisions. However, the existing BMA techniques have been shown providing biased assessments in the absence of some pr... | Feature Importance in Bayesian Assessment of Newborn Brain Maturity from
EEG | 614 |
In this paper we describe an original computational model for solving different types of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSP). The proposed model is called Controller-Agents for Constraints Solving (CACS). This model is intended to be used which is an emerged field from the integration between two paradi... | A new model for solution of complex distributed constrained problems | 615 |
Model transformations operate on models conforming to precisely defined metamodels. Consequently, it often seems relatively easy to chain them: the output of a transformation may be given as input to a second one if metamodels match. However, this simple rule has some obvious limitations. For instance, a transformation... | Automatically Discovering Hidden Transformation Chaining Constraints | 616 |
This article presents the results of the research carried out on the development of a medical diagnostic system applied to the Acute Bacterial Meningitis, using the Case Based Reasoning methodology. The research was focused on the implementation of the adaptation stage, from the integration of Case Based Reasoning and ... | Integration of Rule Based Expert Systems and Case Based Reasoning in an
Acute Bacterial Meningitis Clinical Decision Support System | 617 |
Recent advancement in web services plays an important role in business to business and business to consumer interaction. Discovery mechanism is not only used to find a suitable service but also provides collaboration between service providers and consumers by using standard protocols. A static web service discovery mec... | Indexer Based Dynamic Web Services Discovery | 618 |
Fuzzy Description Logics (DLs) are a family of logics which allow the representation of (and the reasoning with) structured knowledge affected by vagueness. Although most of the not very expressive crisp DLs, such as ALC, enjoy the Finite Model Property (FMP), this is not the case once we move into the fuzzy case. In t... | On the Failure of the Finite Model Property in some Fuzzy Description
Logics | 619 |
The basic aim of our study is to give a possible model for handling uncertain information. This model is worked out in the framework of DATALOG. At first the concept of fuzzy Datalog will be summarized, then its extensions for intuitionistic- and interval-valued fuzzy logic is given and the concept of bipolar fuzzy Dat... | A multivalued knowledge-base model | 620 |
RefereeToolbox is a java package implementing combination operators for fusing evidences. It is downloadable from: http://refereefunction.fredericdambreville.com/releases RefereeToolbox is based on an interpretation of the fusion rules by means of Referee Functions. This approach implies a dissociation between the defi... | Release ZERO.0.1 of package RefereeToolbox | 621 |
LEXSYS, (Legume Expert System) was a project conceived at IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) Ibadan Nigeria. It was initiated by the COMBS (Collaborative Group on Maize-Based Systems Research in the 1990. It was meant for a general framework for characterizing on-farm testing for technology design f... | LEXSYS: Architecture and Implication for Intelligent Agent systems | 622 |
Computing value of information (VOI) is a crucial task in various aspects of decision-making under uncertainty, such as in meta-reasoning for search; in selecting measurements to make, prior to choosing a course of action; and in managing the exploration vs. exploitation tradeoff. Since such applications typically requ... | Rational Value of Information Estimation for Measurement Selection | 623 |
Formalism based on GA is an alternative to distributed representation models developed so far --- Smolensky's tensor product, Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR) and Binary Spatter Code (BSC). Convolutions are replaced by geometric products, interpretable in terms of geometry which seems to be the most natural la... | Geometric Algebra Model of Distributed Representations | 624 |
We present in this paper some examples of how to compute by hand the PCR5 fusion rule for three sources, so the reader will better understand its mechanism. We also take into consideration the importance of sources, which is different from the classical discounting of sources. | Importance of Sources using the Repeated Fusion Method and the
Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules #5 and #6 | 625 |
Terrorism has led to many problems in Thai societies, not only property damage but also civilian casualties. Predicting terrorism activities in advance can help prepare and manage risk from sabotage by these activities. This paper proposes a framework focusing on event classification in terrorism domain using fuzzy inf... | Terrorism Event Classification Using Fuzzy Inference Systems | 626 |
Most of the web user's requirements are search or navigation time and getting correctly matched result. These constrains can be satisfied with some additional modules attached to the existing search engines and web servers. This paper proposes that powerful architecture for search engines with the title of Probabilisti... | Probabilistic Semantic Web Mining Using Artificial Neural Analysis | 627 |
The Nystrom method is an efficient technique to speed up large-scale learning applications by generating low-rank approximations. Crucial to the performance of this technique is the assumption that a matrix can be well approximated by working exclusively with a subset of its columns. In this work we relate this assumpt... | Matrix Coherence and the Nystrom Method | 628 |
We define the concept of an internal symmetry. This is a symmety within a solution of a constraint satisfaction problem. We compare this to solution symmetry, which is a mapping between different solutions of the same problem. We argue that we may be able to exploit both types of symmetry when finding solutions. We ill... | Symmetry within Solutions | 629 |
We study propagation algorithms for the conjunction of two AllDifferent constraints. Solutions of an AllDifferent constraint can be seen as perfect matchings on the variable/value bipartite graph. Therefore, we investigate the problem of finding simultaneous bipartite matchings. We present an extension of the famous Ha... | Propagating Conjunctions of AllDifferent Constraints | 630 |
The successful execution of a construction project is heavily impacted by making the right decision during tendering processes. Managing tender procedures is very complex and uncertain involving coordination of many tasks and individuals with different priorities and objectives. Bias and inconsistent decision are inevi... | Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Construction Tendering Processes | 631 |
The need for integration of ontologies with nonmonotonic rules has been gaining importance in a number of areas, such as the Semantic Web. A number of researchers addressed this problem by proposing a unified semantics for hybrid knowledge bases composed of both an ontology (expressed in a fragment of first-order logic... | Towards Closed World Reasoning in Dynamic Open Worlds (Extended Version) | 632 |
On the basis of an analysis of previous research, we present a generalized approach for measuring the difference of plans with an exemplary application to machine scheduling. Our work is motivated by the need for such measures, which are used in dynamic scheduling and planning situations. In this context, quantitative ... | On the comparison of plans: Proposition of an instability measure for
dynamic machine scheduling | 633 |
We define an inference system to capture explanations based on causal statements, using an ontology in the form of an IS-A hierarchy. We first introduce a simple logical language which makes it possible to express that a fact causes another fact and that a fact explains another fact. We present a set of formal inferenc... | Ontology-based inference for causal explanation | 634 |
We report (to our knowledge) the first evaluation of Constraint Satisfaction as a computational framework for solving closest string problems. We show that careful consideration of symbol occurrences can provide search heuristics that provide several orders of magnitude speedup at and above the optimal distance. We als... | The Exact Closest String Problem as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem | 635 |
We consider the problem of jointly training structured models for extraction from sources whose instances enjoy partial overlap. This has important applications like user-driven ad-hoc information extraction on the web. Such applications present new challenges in terms of the number of sources and their arbitrary patte... | Joint Structured Models for Extraction from Overlapping Sources | 636 |
A technique to study the dynamics of solving of a research task is suggested. The research task was based on specially developed software Right- Wrong Responder (RWR), with the participants having to reveal the response logic of the program. The participants interacted with the program in the form of a semi-binary dial... | An approach to visualize the course of solving of a research task in
humans | 637 |
This paper constructively proves the existence of an effective procedure generating a computable (total) function that is not contained in any given effectively enumerable set of such functions. The proof implies the existence of machines that process informal concepts such as computable (total) functions beyond the li... | Informal Concepts in Machines | 638 |
Mountain river torrents and snow avalanches generate human and material damages with dramatic consequences. Knowledge about natural phenomenona is often lacking and expertise is required for decision and risk management purposes using multi-disciplinary quantitative or qualitative approaches. Expertise is considered as... | A two-step fusion process for multi-criteria decision applied to natural
hazards in mountains | 639 |
A lot of mathematical knowledge has been formalized and stored in repositories by now: different mathematical theorems and theories have been taken into consideration and included in mathematical repositories. Applications more distant from pure mathematics, however --- though based on these theories --- often need mor... | On Building a Knowledge Base for Stability Theory | 640 |
It is hypothesized that creativity arises from the self-mending capacity of an internal model of the world, or worldview. The uniquely honed worldview of a creative individual results in a distinctive style that is recognizable within and across domains. It is further hypothesized that creativity is domaingeneral in th... | Recognizability of Individual Creative Style Within and Across Domains:
Preliminary Studies | 641 |
Approximate dynamic programming has been used successfully in a large variety of domains, but it relies on a small set of provided approximation features to calculate solutions reliably. Large and rich sets of features can cause existing algorithms to overfit because of a limited number of samples. We address this shor... | Feature Selection Using Regularization in Approximate Linear Programs
for Markov Decision Processes | 642 |
We discuss how to use a Genetic Regulatory Network as an evolutionary representation to solve a typical GP reinforcement problem, the pole balancing. The network is a modified version of an Artificial Regulatory Network proposed a few years ago, and the task could be solved only by finding a proper way of connecting in... | Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole | 643 |
Programs to solve so-called constraint problems are complex pieces of software which require many design decisions to be made more or less arbitrarily by the implementer. These decisions affect the performance of the finished solver significantly. Once a design decision has been made, it cannot easily be reversed, alth... | Using machine learning to make constraint solver implementation
decisions | 644 |
In this paper the author presents a kind of Soft Computing Technique, mainly an application of fuzzy set theory of Prof. Zadeh [16], on a problem of Medical Experts Systems. The choosen problem is on design of a physician's decision model which can take crisp as well as fuzzy data as input, unlike the traditional model... | A Soft Computing Model for Physicians' Decision Process | 645 |
An important problem in computational social choice theory is the complexity of undesirable behavior among agents, such as control, manipulation, and bribery in election systems. These kinds of voting strategies are often tempting at the individual level but disastrous for the agents as a whole. Creating election syste... | The Complexity of Manipulating $k$-Approval Elections | 646 |
In the last two decades, a number of methods have been proposed for forecasting based on fuzzy time series. Most of the fuzzy time series methods are presented for forecasting of car road accidents. However, the forecasting accuracy rates of the existing methods are not good enough. In this paper, we compared our propo... | Inaccuracy Minimization by Partioning Fuzzy Data Sets - Validation of
Analystical Methodology | 647 |
In this paper, a new learning algorithm for adaptive network intrusion detection using naive Bayesian classifier and decision tree is presented, which performs balance detections and keeps false positives at acceptable level for different types of network attacks, and eliminates redundant attributes as well as contradi... | Combining Naive Bayes and Decision Tree for Adaptive Intrusion Detection | 648 |
This paper presents a combination of several automated reasoning and proof presentation tools with the Mizar system for formalization of mathematics. The combination forms an online service called MizAR, similar to the SystemOnTPTP service for first-order automated reasoning. The main differences to SystemOnTPTP are th... | Automated Reasoning and Presentation Support for Formalizing Mathematics
in Mizar | 649 |
Structured and semi-structured data describing entities, taxonomies and ontologies appears in many domains. There is a huge interest in integrating structured information from multiple sources; however integrating structured data to infer complex common structures is a difficult task because the integration must aggreg... | Integrating Structured Metadata with Relational Affinity Propagation | 650 |
The paper offers a mathematical formalization of the Turing test. This formalization makes it possible to establish the conditions under which some Turing machine will pass the Turing test and the conditions under which every Turing machine (or every Turing machine of the special class) will fail the Turing test. | A Formalization of the Turing Test | 651 |
Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured metadata provide valuable evidence for learning how a community organizes knowledge. For instance, we can aggregate many personal hierarchies... | Growing a Tree in the Forest: Constructing Folksonomies by Integrating
Structured Metadata | 652 |
Symmetry is an important feature of many constraint programs. We show that any problem symmetry acting on a set of symmetry breaking constraints can be used to break symmetry. Different symmetries pick out different solutions in each symmetry class. This simple but powerful idea can be used in a number of different way... | Symmetries of Symmetry Breaking Constraints | 653 |
We propose automatically learning probabilistic Hierarchical Task Networks (pHTNs) in order to capture a user's preferences on plans, by observing only the user's behavior. HTNs are a common choice of representation for a variety of purposes in planning, including work on learning in planning. Our contributions are (a)... | Learning Probabilistic Hierarchical Task Networks to Capture User
Preferences | 654 |
Brain-Like Stochastic Search (BLiSS) refers to this task: given a family of utility functions U(u,A), where u is a vector of parameters or task descriptors, maximize or minimize U with respect to u, using networks (Option Nets) which input A and learn to generate good options u stochastically. This paper discusses why ... | Brain-Like Stochastic Search: A Research Challenge and Funding
Opportunity | 655 |
We introduce a framework for representing a variety of interesting problems as inference over the execution of probabilistic model programs. We represent a "solution" to such a problem as a guide program which runs alongside the model program and influences the model program's random choices, leading the model program ... | Variational Program Inference | 656 |
The basic unit of meaning on the Semantic Web is the RDF statement, or triple, which combines a distinct subject, predicate and object to make a definite assertion about the world. A set of triples constitutes a graph, to which they give a collective meaning. It is upon this simple foundation that the rich, complex kno... | The Dilated Triple | 657 |
In this Information system age many organizations consider information system as their weapon to compete or gain competitive advantage or give the best services for non profit organizations. Game Information System as combining Information System and game is breakthrough to achieve organizations' performance. The Game ... | Game Information System | 658 |
In order to get strategic positioning for competition in business organization, the information system must be ahead in this information age where the information as one of the weapons to win the competition and in the right hand the information will become a right bullet. The information system with the information te... | Virtual information system on working area | 659 |
Earthquake DSS is an information technology environment which can be used by government to sharpen, make faster and better the earthquake mitigation decision. Earthquake DSS can be delivered as E-government which is not only for government itself but in order to guarantee each citizen's rights for education, training a... | Indonesian Earthquake Decision Support System | 660 |
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are widely used for modeling decision-making problems in robotics, automated control, and economics. Traditional MDPs assume that the decision maker (DM) knows all states and actions. However, this may not be true in many situations of interest. We define a new framework, MDPs with unaw... | MDPs with Unawareness | 661 |
Existing value function approximation methods have been successfully used in many applications, but they often lack useful a priori error bounds. We propose a new approximate bilinear programming formulation of value function approximation, which employs global optimization. The formulation provides strong a priori gua... | Global Optimization for Value Function Approximation | 662 |
Different notions of equivalence, such as the prominent notions of strong and uniform equivalence, have been studied in Answer-Set Programming, mainly for the purpose of identifying programs that can serve as substitutes without altering the semantics, for instance in program optimization. Such semantic comparisons are... | A General Framework for Equivalences in Answer-Set Programming by
Countermodels in the Logic of Here-and-There | 663 |
Human disease diagnosis is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise. Any attempt of developing a web-based expert system dealing with human disease diagnosis has to overcome various difficulties. This paper describes a project work aiming to develop a web-based fuzzy expert system for diagnosing human... | Human Disease Diagnosis Using a Fuzzy Expert System | 664 |
In the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent. The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and 50 years of research into various programming techniques, the dre... | Vagueness of Linguistic variable | 665 |
Ontologies usually suffer from the semantic heterogeneity when simultaneously used in information sharing, merging, integrating and querying processes. Therefore, the similarity identification between ontologies being used becomes a mandatory task for all these processes to handle the problem of semantic heterogeneity.... | An Efficient Technique for Similarity Identification between Ontologies | 666 |
Many formal languages have been proposed to express or represent Ontologies, including RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL and OWL. Most of these languages are based on XML syntax, but with various terminologies and expressiveness. Therefore, choosing a language for building an Ontology is the main step. The main point of choosing lan... | The State of the Art: Ontology Web-Based Languages: XML Based | 667 |
Semantic Web is actually an extension of the current one in that it represents information more meaningfully for humans and computers alike. It enables the description of contents and services in machine-readable form, and enables annotating, discovering, publishing, advertising and composing services to be automated. ... | Understanding Semantic Web and Ontologies: Theory and Applications | 668 |
Finding the structure of a graphical model has been received much attention in many fields. Recently, it is reported that the non-Gaussianity of data enables us to identify the structure of a directed acyclic graph without any prior knowledge on the structure. In this paper, we propose a novel non-Gaussianity based alg... | GroupLiNGAM: Linear non-Gaussian acyclic models for sets of variables | 669 |
Notions of core, support and inversion of a soft set have been defined and studied. Soft approximations are soft sets developed through core and support, and are used for granulating the soft space. Membership structure of a soft set has been probed in and many interesting properties presented. The mathematical apparat... | Soft Approximations and uni-int Decision Making | 670 |
In recent years there has been growing interest in solutions for the delivery of clinical care for the elderly, due to the large increase in aging population. Monitoring a patient in his home environment is necessary to ensure continuity of care in home settings, but, to be useful, this activity must not be too invasiv... | Reasoning Support for Risk Prediction and Prevention in Independent
Living | 671 |
Iris recognition technology, used to identify individuals by photographing the iris of their eye, has become popular in security applications because of its ease of use, accuracy, and safety in controlling access to high-security areas. Fusion of multiple algorithms for biometric verification performance improvement ha... | Improving Iris Recognition Accuracy By Score Based Fusion Method | 672 |
We study decompositions of the global NVALUE constraint. Our main contribution is theoretical: we show that there are propagators for global constraints like NVALUE which decomposition can simulate with the same time complexity but with a much greater space complexity. This suggests that the benefit of a global propaga... | Decomposition of the NVALUE constraint | 673 |
Symmetry can be used to help solve many problems. For instance, Einstein's famous 1905 paper ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies") uses symmetry to help derive the laws of special relativity. In artificial intelligence, symmetry has played an important role in both problem representation and reasoning. I describe... | Symmetry within and between solutions | 674 |
We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where players arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the Dubins-Spanier moving knife procedure can be adapted to apply to such online problems. We ... | Online Cake Cutting | 675 |
The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. We consider a useful variation of the stable marriage problem, where the men and women express their preferences usin... | Local search for stable marriage problems with ties and incomplete lists | 676 |
Frequent Episode Discovery framework is a popular framework in Temporal Data Mining with many applications. Over the years many different notions of frequencies of episodes have been proposed along with different algorithms for episode discovery. In this paper we present a unified view of all such frequency counting al... | A unified view of Automata-based algorithms for Frequent Episode
Discovery | 677 |
The stable marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. In the classical formulation, n men and n women express their preferences (via a strict total order) over the me... | Local search for stable marriage problems | 678 |
From the advent of the application of satellite imagery to land cover mapping, one of the growing areas of research interest has been in the area of image classification. Image classifiers are algorithms used to extract land cover information from satellite imagery. Most of the initial research has focussed on the deve... | An svm multiclassifier approach to land cover mapping | 679 |
A general method is given for revising degrees of belief and arriving at consistent decisions about a system of logically constrained issues. In contrast to other works about belief revision, here the constraints are assumed to be fixed. The method has two variants, dual of each other, whose revised degrees of belief a... | A general method for deciding about logically constrained issues | 680 |
Strategic Environmental Assessment is a procedure aimed at introducing systematic assessment of the environmental effects of plans and programs. This procedure is based on the so-called coaxial matrices that define dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and... | Logic-Based Decision Support for Strategic Environmental Assessment | 681 |
Hybrid MKNF knowledge bases are one of the most prominent tightly integrated combinations of open-world ontology languages with closed-world (non-monotonic) rule paradigms. The definition of Hybrid MKNF is parametric on the description logic (DL) underlying the ontology language, in the sense that non-monotonic rules c... | Query-driven Procedures for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases | 682 |
Answer set programming - the most popular problem solving paradigm based on logic programs - has been recently extended to support uninterpreted function symbols. All of these approaches have some limitation. In this paper we propose a class of programs called FP2 that enjoys a different trade-off between expressivenes... | A decidable subclass of finitary programs | 683 |
This paper models a decision support system to predict the occurance of suicide attack in a given collection of cities. The system comprises two parts. First part analyzes and identifies the factors which affect the prediction. Admitting incomplete information and use of linguistic terms by experts, as two characterist... | Predicting Suicide Attacks: A Fuzzy Soft Set Approach | 684 |
An approach to the revision of logic programs under the answer set semantics is presented. For programs P and Q, the goal is to determine the answer sets that correspond to the revision of P by Q, denoted P * Q. A fundamental principle of classical (AGM) revision, and the one that guides the approach here, is the succe... | A Program-Level Approach to Revising Logic Programs under the Answer Set
Semantics | 685 |
We study the problem of coalitional manipulation in elections using the unweighted Borda rule. We provide empirical evidence of the manipulability of Borda elections in the form of two new greedy manipulation algorithms based on intuitions from the bin-packing and multiprocessor scheduling domains. Although we have not... | An Empirical Study of Borda Manipulation | 686 |
Autonomous planetary vehicles, also known as rovers, are small autonomous vehicles equipped with a variety of sensors used to perform exploration and experiments on a planet's surface. Rovers work in a partially unknown environment, with narrow energy/time/movement constraints and, typically, small computational resour... | Resource-Optimal Planning For An Autonomous Planetary Vehicle | 687 |
This paper presents the solution about the threat of a VBIED (Vehicle-Born Improvised Explosive Device) obtained with the DSmT (Dezert-Smarandache Theory). This problem has been proposed recently to the authors by Simon Maskell and John Lavery as a typical illustrative example to try to compare the different approaches... | Threat assessment of a possible Vehicle-Born Improvised Explosive Device
using DSmT | 688 |
A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpose numerous heuristics have been proposed. Some of the best of such heuristics exploit information about failures gathered throughout search a... | Evaluating and Improving Modern Variable and Revision Ordering
Strategies in CSPs | 689 |
The two standard branching schemes for CSPs are d-way and 2-way branching. Although it has been shown that in theory the latter can be exponentially more effective than the former, there is a lack of empirical evidence showing such differences. To investigate this, we initially make an experimental comparison of the tw... | Adaptive Branching for Constraint Satisfaction Problems | 690 |
Event-driven automation of reactive functionalities for complex event processing is an urgent need in today's distributed service-oriented architectures and Web-based event-driven environments. An important problem to be addressed is how to correctly and efficiently capture and process the event-based behavioral, react... | A Homogeneous Reaction Rule Language for Complex Event Processing | 691 |
The four intensive problems to the software rose by the software industry .i.e., User System Communication / Human Machine Interface, Meta Data extraction, Information processing & management and Data representation are discussed in this research paper. To contribute in the field we have proposed and described an intel... | Semantic Oriented Agent based Approach towards Engineering Data
Management, Web Information Retrieval and User System Communication Problems | 692 |
Web development is a challenging research area for its creativity and complexity. The existing raised key challenge in web technology technologic development is the presentation of data in machine read and process able format to take advantage in knowledge based information extraction and maintenance. Currently it is n... | An Agent based Approach towards Metadata Extraction, Modelling and
Information Retrieval over the Web | 693 |
In order to study the communication between information systems, Gong and Xiao [Z. Gong and Z. Xiao, Communicating between information systems based on including degrees, International Journal of General Systems 39 (2010) 189--206] proposed the concept of general relation mappings based on including degrees. Some prope... | A note on communicating between information systems based on including
degrees | 694 |
World Wide Web (WWW) is the most popular global information sharing and communication system consisting of three standards .i.e., Uniform Resource Identifier (URL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML). Information is provided in text, image, audio and video formats over the web by u... | Role of Ontology in Semantic Web Development | 695 |
Recent research has highlighted the practical benefits of subjective interestingness measures, which quantify the novelty or unexpectedness of a pattern when contrasted with any prior information of the data miner (Silberschatz and Tuzhilin, 1995; Geng and Hamilton, 2006). A key challenge here is the formalization of t... | Maximum entropy models and subjective interestingness: an application to
tiles in binary databases | 696 |
We examine the practicality for a user of using Answer Set Programming (ASP) for representing logical formalisms. Our example is a formalism aiming at capturing causal explanations from causal information. We show the naturalness and relative efficiency of this translation job. We are interested in the ease for writing... | A formalism for causal explanations with an Answer Set Programming
translation | 697 |
Knowledge Management is a global process in companies. It includes all the processes that allow capitalization, sharing and evolution of the Knowledge Capital of the firm, generally recognized as a critical resource of the organization. Several approaches have been defined to capitalize knowledge but few of them study ... | Learning from Profession Knowledge: Application on Knitting | 698 |
Constraint solvers are complex pieces of software which require many design decisions to be made by the implementer based on limited information. These decisions affect the performance of the finished solver significantly. Once a design decision has been made, it cannot easily be reversed, although a different decision... | Machine learning for constraint solver design -- A case study for the
alldifferent constraint | 699 |
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