This paper proposes a lightweight fusion method for general recursive function definitions. Compared with existing proposals, our method has several significant practical features...
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
In this research, we re-arrange FIPA’s ACL performatives to form a subsumption lattice (ontology) and apply a theory of social commitments to achieve a simplified and observable...
The idea of containment sets (csets) is due to Walster and Hansen, and the theory is mainly due to the first author. Now that floating point computation with infinities is widely a...
We study a novel problem of mining significant recurrent rules from a sequence database. Recurrent rules have the form "whenever a series of precedent events occurs, eventuall...