Many knowledge-based systems feature general machinery that operates on externally supplied information, These systems must solve the acquisition problem: how to represent the external knowledge, determine if it is adequate, and incorporate it into the knowledge base. As a mediator between users and interactive services, the Consul system must understand the intent and behavior of programs that...

Anonymous recommender systems are the electronic pendant to vendors, who ask the customers a few questions and subsequently recommend products based on the answers. In this article we will propose attribute aware classifier-based approaches for such a system and compare it to classifier-based approaches that only make use of the product IDs and to an existing knowledge-based system. We will sho...

This paper examines the extent to which financial development and financial structure may explain cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990–2003, it finds that credit and stock market development tends to foster ICT diffusion, but financial structure does not appear to have any significant r...

GBFS-based satisficing planners often augment their search with knowledge-based enhancements such as preferred operators and multiple heuristics. These techniques seek to improve planner performance by making the search more informed. In our work, we will focus on how these enhancements impact coverage and we will use a simple technique called ✏-greedy node selection to demonstrate that planner...

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This paper presents an expectation-based Japaneseto-English translation system called JETR which relies on the forward expectation-refinement process to handle ungrammatical sentences in an elegant and efficient manner without relying on the presence of particles and verbs in the source text. JETR uses a chain of result states to perform context analysis for resolving pronoun and object referen...

This paper proposes a dynamically-changed knowledge system. Each belief in the system has a component reflecting the strength of support from other people. The system is capable of adapting to a contextual situation by means of the continuous revision of belief strengths through interaction with others. As a paradigmatic application of the proposed socially-supported belief system, a parser was...

In this paper we present the architectural concepts of highly complex knowledge based system dubbed as the Universal Knowledge Processing System (UKPS) could be thought of as a Wisdom Machine (WM) capable of solving any problem simple or difficult with the help of its knowledge bases. The Universal Knowledge Processing Machine is in turn formed of several Knowledge Processing Systems (KPS) conn...

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In this paper we present the following view on problem-solving methods for knowledge-based systems: Problem-solving methods describe an efficient reasoning strategy to achieve a goal by introducing assumptions about the available domain knowledge and the required functionality. Assumptions, dynamic reasoning behavior, and functionality are the three elements necessary to characterize a problem-...