A recurrent question in the design of intelligent agents is how to assign degrees of beliefs, or subjective probabilities, to various events in a relational environment. In the sta...
Abstract. Markov logic, as a highly expressive representation formalism that essentially combines the semantics of probabilistic graphical models with the full power of first-orde...
Dominik Jain, Bernhard Kirchlechner, Michael Beetz
This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
Abstract. Privacy issues are a major burden for the acceptance of pervasive applications. They may ultimately result in the rejection of new services despite their functional bene...