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...

Recent work within the CBR community has studied more systematic means of interrelating different types of domain knowledge, tasks, and methods for building and maintaining CBR systems. This paper reviews work from the knowledge acquisition community, targeted at methodologies and tools for analysis, modeling, and maintenance of knowledge components. It is argued that the knowledge level is the...

Knowledge acquisition is recognized as a critical knowledge management process for developing knowledge management systems. For accounting and legal industries, to transform tacit knowledge from the professional experts to explicit knowledge could be problematic as human judgment could vary substantially among the experts. In addition, maintenance of the systems could require regular interactio...

As part of the DARPA-sponsored High Performance Knowledge Bases program, four organisations were set the challenge of solving a selection of knowledge-based planning problems in a particular domain, and then modifying their systems quickly to solve further problems in the same domain. The aim of the exercise was to test the claim that, with the latest AI technology, large knowledge bases can be...