Ontologies in a legal expert system must be processed to suit all possible user cases within the field of law of the system. From the logical premises of a deductive system of expr...
In this paper we consider the functionality that a rights expression language (REL) should provide within a digital rights management (DRM) environment. We begin by noting the dea...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman, Iv&aacu...
Many environments in which humans wayfind can be conveniently abstracted as networks or graphs: structures of nodes that are interconnected by edges. Examples include the street ne...
Abstract. The paper develops fuzzy attribute logic, i.e. a logic for reasoning about formulas of the form A ⇒ B where A and B are fuzzy sets of attributes. A formula A ⇒ B repr...
Abstract. Is it possible to create a simple physical system that is capable of replicating itself? Can such a system evolve interesting behaviors, thus allowing it to adapt to a wi...