Alveolar bone loss and the duration of untreated disease were compared in 3 1 patients with lepromatous leprosy. In general , those patients with the longest confirmed untreated disease also had the greatest alveolar bone loss in the anterior maxi l la . These data , taken together wi th previous observations, suggest that early detection and uninterrupted treatment of lepromatous patients will...

Dung’s abstract argumentation theory can be seen as a general framework for non-monotonic reasoning. An important question is then: what is the class of logics that can be subsumed as instantiations of this theory? The goal of this paper is to identify and study the large class of logic-based instantiations of Dung’s theory which correspond to the maxi-consistent operator, i.e. to the function ...

Learning and adaptation is a fundamental property of intelligent agents. In the context of adaptive information filtering, a filtering agent’s beliefs about a user’s information needs have to be revised regularly with reference to the user’s most current information preferences. This learning and adaptation process is essential for maintaining the agent’s filtering performance. The AGM belief r...