In e-commerce applications, no systematic research has been provided to evaluate if the use of a detailed and rich contextual representation improves the user modeling predictive p...
Cosimo Palmisano, Alexander Tuzhilin, Michele Gorg...
This note describes a logical system based on concepts and contexts, whose aim is to serve as a representation language for meanings of natural language sentences. The logic is a t...
Valeria de Paiva, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravd...
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, situations with several agents providing the data, or with possibl...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
Heterogeneity and uncertainty are two main characteristics of pervasive computing environment and CSCW. CSCW can be viewed as a special case of pervasive computing. Middleware is ...
A rational agent derives its choice of action from its beliefs and goals. Goals can be distinguished into achievement goals and maintenance goals. The aim of this paper is to defi...