Cognitive appraisal theories, which link human emotional experience to their interpretations of events happening in the environment, are leading approaches to model emotions. In th...
In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...
: Decision-support systems that help solving problems in open and weak theory domains, i.e. hard problems, need improved methods to ground their models in real world situations. Mo...
The main problem in model checking that prevents it from being used for veri cation of large systems is the state explosion problem. This problem often arises from combining parall...
In medicine many exceptions occur. In medical practise and in knowledge-based systems too, it is necessary to consider them and to deal with them appropriately. In medical studies ...