Abstract. Semantics shows diversity in real world, document world, mental abstraction world and machine world. Transformation between semantics pursues the uniformity in the divers...
In this paper we propose a framework for decentralized model-based diagnosis of complex systems modeled with qualitative constraints and whose models are distributed among their s...
This paper describes the Region Occlusion Calculus (ROC-20), that can be used to model spatial occlusion and the effects of motion parallax of arbitrary shaped objects. ROC-20 ass...
We address here the treatment of metonymic expressions from a knowledge representation perspective, that is, in the context of a text understanding system which aims to build a co...
Jacques Bouaud, Bruno Bachimont, Pierre Zweigenbau...
This paper explores the applicability of two formal models of spatial relations, Double Cross and RfDL3-12, to interpret some typical expressions that people use for describing a r...