Copyrights  1998, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Abstract The World Wide Web (WWW) is currently one of the most important electronic information sources. However, its query interfaces and the provided reasoning services are rather limited. Ontobroker consists of a number of languages and tools that enhance query access and inference servic...

We present a study of several fault attacks against the block cipher IDEA. Such a study is particularly interesting because of the target cipher’s specific property to employ operations on three different algebraic groups while not using substitution tables. We observe that the attacks perform very different in terms of efficiency. Although requiring a restrictive fault model, the first attack ...

4 The Expectation-Maximization algorithm 7 4.1 Jointly-non-concave incomplete log-likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 (Possibly) Concave complete data log-likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3 The general EM derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.4 The E& M-steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.5 The EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The methodology of Software-Defined Robotics hierarchical-based and stand-alone framework can be designed and implemented to program and control different sets of robots, regardless of their manufacturers’ parameters and specifications, with unified commands and communications. This framework approach will increase the capability of (re)programming a specific group of robots during the runtime ...

This paper presents the information retrieval system that integrates concept-based retrieval, which focuses on the similarity of the meanings of words, with the characterstring-matching-based retrieval. The system provides a word association function, a concept retrieval function, and a document classification function, which are expected to help the user to reach the target document quickly or...

This article introduces the idea of philosophical sociology as an enquiry into the relationships between implicit notions of human nature and explicit conceptualizations of social life within sociology. Philosophical sociology is also an invitation to reflect on the role of the normative in social life by looking at it sociologically and philosophically at the same: normative self-reflection is...