To reason about geographical objects, it is not only necessary to have more or less complete information about where these objects are located in space, but also how they can chang...
Representing and Reasoning about time and change is one of the primary issues in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Representation (KR). Despite the importance...
Data stream applications have made use of statistical summaries to reason about the data using nonparametric tools such as histograms, heavy hitters, and join sizes. However, rela...
A variety of hybrid genetic algorithms has been recently proposed to address the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), a problem known to be NP-hard. However, very few...
We propose a new way to raise the level of discourse in the programming process: permit ambiguity, but manage it by linking it to unambiguous examples. This allows programming env...