The use of Virtual Environments as a user interface can be important for certain types of applications, especially in the fields of education and entertainment. These synthetic wo...
Previous researchers note the problem for semantic optimisation of database queries caused by its production of a large number of semantically equivalent alternative queries, from...
The monitoring and control of any dynamic system depends crucially on the ability to reason about its current status and its future trajectory. In the case of a stochastic system,...
Several qualitative notions of epistemic dependence between propositions are studied. They are closely related to the ordinal notion of conditional possibility. What this paper pr...
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...