Within the law, the traditional test for attributing causal responsibility is the counterfactual “but-for” test, which asks whether the injury complained of would have occurre...
Many problems in AI study can be traced back to the confusion of different research goals. In this paper, five typical ways to define AI are clarified, analyzed, and compared. It i...
The data volume of XML repositories and the response time of query processing have become critical issues for many applications, especially for those in the Web. An interesting alt...
The paper proposes a unification of the two main frameworks commonly used for the analysis of collective decisionmaking: the framework of preference aggregation, developed from t...
How to achieve shared meaning is a significant issue when more than one intelligent agent is involved in the same domain. We define the task of concept convergence, by which intell...