. We show how to organize a collection of intelligent cooperating agents into a rough mereological controller for the purpose of assembling a complex object with desired quality from its elementary pa...
ii This thesis investigates verbal and prepositional representations of change under a non-localistic analysis based on the mereology of events, i.e., a system of aspect that uses event parts as primi...
f-parthood?for many values of ?f??is not. ? Let me call this view ?the (Simons/Casati/Varzi) predicate modifier account ? of non-transitive parthood relations [9, 2]. As summarized in this quotation, ...
Abstract. Since our world is populated by entities that persist through time and that change over time it is important to represent knowledge about those entities in a formal manner. In this paper a f...
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Knowledge acquisition is one of the most important issues in the development of intelligent systems. A good understanding of the investigated domain often proves crucial for systems that dea...
We address the task of enabling naive users in a practical context to define, comprehend and use knowledge bases for representing part-whole information. This work is part of a larger effort whose tar...
We address the task of enabling naive users in a practical context to define, comprehend and use knowledge bases for representing part-whole information. This work is part of a larger effort whose tar...
We address the task of enabling naive users in a practical context to define, comprehend and use knowledge bases for representing part-whole information. This work is part of a larger effort whose tar...