This report contains a brief review and analysis of several existing small autonomous robots in the U.S. This comprehensive study includes a description of their application area, sensing capabilities, computing facilities, degree of physical autonomy, and supporting software. Specific designing assumptions from this analysis have been presented for construction of our GMU Intelligent Explorer ...

The problem considered in this article is how does one go about discovering and designing intelligent systems. The solution to this problem is considered in the context of what is known as wisdom technology (wistech), an important computing and reasoning paradigm for intelligent systems. A rough-granular approach to wistech is proposed for developing one of its possible foundations. The propose...

This paper proposes a model for the integration of a formal ontology and a folksonomy within a knowledge-based system. We evaluated such a model by designing ARNEIS 2.0, an “intelligent” and social web-based repository of software solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). ARNEIS 2.0 is a work in progress and aims at exploiting the integration of Semantic Web (ontologies and reason...

abstractone challenge face political system is implementation national development. there are various models for national development. some countries have relied on import model, but other has emphasis on their indigenous, the purpose of this study is designing intelligence development model in iranian national context. based on the selected theory building methodology, we have theorized intell...

This paper discusses an experimental software project that interactively trains an artificial intelligence program with user input. The project is a commentary on the humanmachine relationship inspired by the infamous Turing 'imitation' game. The software is an anthropomorphic play modeled on the different stages of an initiation rite (separation, margin and aggregation) observed by Van Gennep ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge the help that I have received during my research. Grateful thanks to: • Dr. Timothy Lethbridge, my supervisor, for his support, guidance, patience and intelligent comments. • The KBRE group for their help, comments, and the valuable discussions with them. • The software engineers who participated in this study. • My friends for their concerns and enc...