Inductive databases (IDBs) have been proposed to afford the problem of knowledge discovery from huge databases. With an IDB the user/analyst performs a set of very different operat...
Brittleness is a well-known problem in expert systems where a conclusion can be made, which human common sense would recognise as impossible e.g. that a male is pregnant. We have e...
In multi-agent systems, individual problem solving capabilities can be improved thanks to the interaction with other agents. In the classification problem solving task each agent i...
Ontologies play a key role in agent communication and the emerging Semantic Web to define a vocabulary of concepts and their relationships. Different agents and web services may us...
In this article we are interested in the representation of qualitative preferences with the help of 3-points intervals (a vector of three increasingly ordered points). Preferences ...