— This paper provides a broad overview of logical and black box approaches to fuzzy and rough hybridization. The logical approaches include theoretical, supervised learning, feat...
The Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of probabilistic reasoning is presented in terms of a semantics whereby every meaningful formal assertion is associated with a triple (p, q, r) whe...
We introduce an extension of Description Logics (DLs) for representing and reasoning about contextualized knowledge. Our formalism is inspired by McCarthy’s theory of formalizing...
Vertical standards are complex networked technologies whose assimilation is subject to extensive interorganizational dependence and network effects. Classical theories of diffusio...
Abstract. Variables make rule-based systems more abstract and expressive, as witnessed by term rewriting systems and two-level grammars. In this paper we show that variables can be...