The inherent difficulty in supporting human usability in large control systems--such as building environmental and security systems--derives from the large diversity of components...
Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz, Christopher L....
The design and maintenance of ontologies is a complex social collaborative activity, and this is true especially for semantic-web ontologies. On the one hand, such activity calls ...
Aldo Gangemi, Jos Lehmann, Valentina Presutti, Mal...
Given a set of observed economic choices, can one infer preferences and/or utility functions for the players that are consistent with the data? Questions of this type are called r...
A continuous top-k query retrieves the k most preferred objects in a data stream according to a given preference function. These queries are important for a broad spectrum of appl...
Avani Shastri, Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
Knowledge intensive engineering aims at flexible applications of a variety of product life cycle knowledge, such as design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance, and recycling. ...