Unexpected events can cause the failure of apparently "correct" robot programs. The interaction with the real world and its unpredictability make the problem of error recovery in robot programming specially important. The goal of the paper is to present a general framework in which the activity of error recovery can be automated. This is accomplished by introducing a monitor program which ident...

Creativity and knowledge are closely linked. Recent research into the relations between them highlights social and organisational aspects. However, creativity seems difficult for ordering, and creative processes often involve people with different knowledge bases, requiring the integration of different types of knowledge. While the management of creativity in organisations is seen as a complex ...

The management of the integrity of intelligent systems relies on techniques to integrate the components and to manage the integrity of the knowledge-based systems components. A unified methodology integrates knowledge-based systems components with database components. Constraints are used to manage the integrity of knowledge. One class of knowledge constraints protect the integrity of knowledge...

chooshing the knowledge management strategy is affected by different organizational factors like business strategy, organizational structure, organizational culture, information technology strategy, human resource management, and dynamics of knowledge. it is difficult for strategists to consider all these factors in choosing appropriate km strategy. in this research after presenting a six step ...

Probabilistic conditional logic is a knowledge representation formalism that uses probabilistic conditionals (if-then rules) to model uncertain and incomplete information. By applying the principle of maximum entropy one can reason with a set of probabilistic conditionals in an information-theoretical optimal way, provided that the set is consistent. As in other fields of knowledge representati...

Interoperability and reuse of components and declarative knowledge are crucial to the further development of knowledge-based software. Unfortunately, it is hard to get components to interoperate and even harder to reuse other people’s work. These difficulties are often a result of incompatibilities in the knowledge models (the precise definition of declarative knowledge structures) assumed by t...