This paper examines implications of research suggesting fast access to information may be at the expense of the time needed for creative thinking and reflection. It suggests that to support human thought through the provision ...

Designing virtual workspaces is largely an ad-hoc activity, and it is difficult and expensive to obtain knowledge about actual collaborative work processes to aid this design. However, workspace configurations naturally ...

Diagnostic systems depend on knowledge bases specifying the causal, structural or functional interactions among components of the diagnosed objects. A diagnostic specification in a diagnostic system is a semantic interpretation ...

This paper investigates ways of applying oscillator synchronization to graph coloring. A previous method based on the generalization of the Aihara model is sensitive to the varying degree of the vertices in the graph and ...

Bilevel programming techniques are developed for decentralized decision problems with decision makers located in two levels. Both upper and lower decision makers, termed as leader and follower, try to optimize their own ...

An important feature in most urban roads and similar environments, such as in theme parks, campus sites, industrial estates, science parks, and the like, is the existence of pavements or curbs on either side de?ning the ...

Trillas, Cubillo and Castineira [Artificial Intelligence 117 (2000) 255-275] defined several interesting operators in orthocomplemented lattices. These operators give a quite general algebraic model for conjectures, ...

In this paper, we introduce and study a new type of integral, namely the lattice-valued Zp-pan-integral, for lattice-valued Borel functions on lattice. A number of theorems characterizing the properties of the integral ...