This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
Abstract. Over the last twenty years AI has undergone a sea change. The oncedominant paradigm of logical inference over symbolic knowledge representations has largely been supplant...
nizing multiple forms of information and knowledge processing on different levels of abstraction in a structured and principled manner. We propose knowledge processing middleware a...
Abstract. Retrieval of structured cases using similarity has been studied in CBR but there has been less activity on defining similarity on description logics (DL). In this paper w...
Component-based software construction is widely used in a variety of applications, from embedded environments to grid computing. However, errors in these applications and systems ...