Levesque introduced the notion of only-knowing to precisely capture the beliefs of a knowledge base. He also showed how only-knowing can be used to formalize non-monotonic behavio...
We address the problem of failure diagnosis in discrete event systems with decentralized information. We propose a coordinated decentralized architecture consisting of local sites ...
A recurring theme during the CODATA 2000 conference (Lake Maggiore, Italy, 15 - 19 October 2000) was the increasing convergence in data-rich branches of science between the storag...
We introduce the natural class SP 2 containing those languages which may be expressed in terms of two symmetric quanti ers. This class lies between P 2 and P 2 P 2 and naturall...
In this paper the notion of free form feature for aesthetic design is presented. The design of industrial products constituted by free form surfaces is done by using CAD systems r...